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Just because an endeavor is legal, does not make it ethical. I agree with parent: working for a casino is about as unethical as working for a tobacco company. Y

• conanbatt 9y ago
  This kind of thinking paradoxically makes investing in those ventures profitable. The "vice" has extra returns because there is less investor competition.
• Clubber 9y ago
  Yes, but that applies to just about every programming job too. Is programming unethical? I mean your are automating jobs away. It certainly harms lives.
  • jonnycomputer 9y ago
    By that measure taking a job is unethical because it takes away a job that another might perform... Yes, working for an industry that does harm to people is unethical. However, the censure that is deserved is proportional to the the "status" of the position they occupy in the industry, e.g. CEOs > Professionals > Blue Collar > Part Timers. Its not just the influence the different people have on the industries or companies they work in, its also a function of their autonomy. A lot of people have little choice but to take whatever job they can get, because they have other obligations as well: to their selves, to their families, and to their communities.
    • Clubber 9y ago
      Programmers have to have jobs just as much as blue collar people. I mean everything except (possibly) the CEO has to work for income.
• jonnycomputer 9y ago
  Also, at some point you are going to be asked to do something you know is effed up.