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...Unless it's advetising. Or Uber. Or government wanting you to implement yet another freedom-restricting bullshit.
by vlaaad 9y ago
...Unless it's advetising. Or Uber. Or government wanting you to implement yet another freedom-restricting bullshit.
- romanovcode 9y ago> Or Uber. There are plenty of companies 10x worse than Uber. Hivemind.
- falcolas 9y agoThat there are worse companies than Uber doesn't make Uber good, or even worth working for.
- romanovcode 9y agoBut pointing it out makes OP look like he just read some clickbait titles two weeks ago and is now some cringey Anti Uber SJW.
- falcolas 9y agoI think it makes the point that there are some cases where the cost of negatively impacting society is not worth the benefit of making more money to give to charity.
- beachbum8029 9y agoUmmmmmm but Uber made the world a better place? (for me anyway)
- vlaaad 9y agoSorry, I said Uber a bit provocative. I meant companies doing unethical things and asking you to do unethical things.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoWhich Uber is definitely a good example of, but I agree it was a bit provocative :).
- falcolas 9y agoDid it make your world a better place, or just add a bit of convenience whose cost was distributed to people you don't know?
- paulgb 9y agoWell, the benefits are also distributed to people I don't know, so this type of accounting is tough.
- Kiro 9y agoDisrupting the taxi mafia has definitely made the world a better place.
- falcolas 9y agoDid the "taxi mafia" encourage a class of laborers who sleep in their cars for less than a minimum wage while depriving them of any kind of protections normally associated with employment?
- Epenthesis 9y ago...yes? Are you really unfamiliar with how medallion owners used to treat their drivers?
- falcolas 9y agoPerhaps I have rose colored glasses, but the "sleeping in the car" problem seems new. But I could very well be wrong. That said, how are we really in a better place? Same problem, different master.
- pc86 9y agoThere is an early NYT article (early in the context of Uber's lifespan) detailing a day when a cab driver in NYC ended up paying his employer a few hundred dollars for the privilege of working that day. This was after all his fares for the shift.
- davidcbc 9y agoOr do work for those places if you don't find them morally questionable.
- patja 9y agoI believe that over time your environment shapes you. I agree that you should devote your working hours to something more than shareholder value or increased clickthrough rates. Sure you can pull down the big bucks working on the next version of biological warfare weaponry and make large donations to Red Cross or whatever, but not without a personal toll.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoA better rule is: just don't take a job in which your negative impact on the society will be greater than the positive impact of the money you donate.
- streblo 9y agoI work in advertising and I don't think it's immoral or unethical.
- andreasgonewild 9y agoAdvertising is about creating artificial problems and needs, making the world a shittier place for profit. Maybe pulling your head out of your ass would help?