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Easy: not everyone finds those businesses “immoral”. Many find it blends very nicely with their own personal libertarian attitudes. This blending is made even
by alfredallan1 8y ago
Easy: not everyone finds those businesses “immoral”.
Many find it blends very nicely with their own personal libertarian attitudes. This blending is made even smoother by the nice paychecks these industries offer. e.g. algorithm engineers, quants/mathmaticians, etc. in gambling businesses, site reliability and streaming engineers at adult sites. These are hard technical problems, of the exact same nature as any trading business or netflix. Why wouldn’t an engineer be attracted to them? Not everyone shares the same moral values. And a lot of technically minded folks tend to have some libertarian tendencies.
- alfredallan1 8y agoI’d like to add something to what I wrote earlier: how is it any more “moral” to be working for any company whose primary revenue source is based on sneaking up ads on unsuspecting people and tracking all manner of personal data without permission? At least in the case of an adult site or a gambling site, the proposition is very clear - you know what you’re going there for and that’s what you get. On the other hand, nobody goes to a website for the express purpose of giving away their personal data and getting stealth cookies on their machines to track their every move. I’d argue working for any of the ad-network or personal-data companies is more immoral compared to working for a casio company.