This sort of utilitarian argument is missing the point, which is that well-paid in-demand workers want to feel good about their work, and the business of war is

This sort of utilitarian argument is missing the point, which is that well-paid in-demand workers want to feel good about their work, and the business of war isn't going to invoke those feelings. This is like the wayfair walkouts earlier this year. It's not that wayfair employees wanted children in border camps to go without beds, but the employees personally did not want their workplace to be in the business of furnishing border camps. edit: > For me, it’s hard to understand why tech employees would not want to help their fellow Americans survive on the battlefield and accomplish their missions in the safest and least damaging way possible. Not because our wars are a good or bad idea, but because, although not everyone does the fighting, these wars belong to all of us. > While I did choose to dedicate my life to our common defense, I did not and do not choose when and where to go to war. Each time I went to war, it was because my fellow Americans — including engineers in Silicon Valley — chose, through our democratic institutions, to send me there. Honestly this whole thing is a bit tone deaf. Trust in our democratic institutions is (from my understanding) at an all time low. For your average engineer I think your choice of workplace is the greatest leverage to making the world a better place, and it certainly becomes part of your identity. In a nation of "not my president", who wants to be told that "these wars belong to all of us"?