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selling out is not respectable. Selling out your colleagues is even less so. Every person is offered deals by the devil before their real ship comes in. This i
by simbalion 10y ago
selling out is not respectable. Selling out your colleagues is even less so.
Every person is offered deals by the devil before their real ship comes in. This is to separate the wicked from the good. People who are evil at heart will take the deal with the devil. People who are good will understand that money is not their solution (may be the root of all evil), and they should not taint their soul in order to make a few bucks.
Everybody falls, it may be that people who take dirty money fall harder. (needs study)
Disclaimer: I'm not suggesting any religious explanation for this phenomena, so any that you perceive is your own delusion. I'm simply stating what is observable, and likely fact (needs study). Dirty money comes first. Honest money comes after hard work and usually when the chips seem down.
- kcbigring 10y agospoken like a good engineer... i btw am that guy too and agree, yet i am not sure it is truth. i hope so.
- PhilWright 10y agoYou state 'Every person is offered deals by the devil...'. This is a religious assertion. So putting a disclaimer that you are not suggesting any religious explanation is therefore nonsense.
- Cpoll 10y agoThe idiom "deal with the devil" barely has any religious connotation anymore. You probably wouldn't bat an eyelid if the post didn't also contain "separate the wicked from the good," "evil at heart," "taint their soul," and the use of the word "fall." Which isn't to say your point isn't valid.
- simbalion 10y agoI'm not religious but I was raised by religious people so my vocabulary for morality includes those sort of words. There might be better words, but those are the ones I know. but morality exists without religion, which is why I added the 'disclaimer'
- runamok 10y agoWe all start out as idealists. I have worked for an adserving company and a free to play gaming company. I have also worked for a company that is a huge defense contractor though my project was the ISS. It's pretty easy to rationalize all this. Am I wicked for not working solely to "make the world a better place"? The world is full of shades of grey.
- simbalion 10y agoI don't think everyone should be out to make the world a better place, some folks just want to earn a living which is totally respectable by itself. I am saying I think people should avoid doing things which are clearly evil, especially when their only real motivation is money. You can make lots of money without being evil. I absolutely believe money-for-evil is a honey pot to identify and eliminate evil people. You don't have to agree for it to be true.