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I'm very sympathetic to this perspective. If your options are: 1. Stay at unethical job you hate. 2. Get a new job you don't hate. Well, the answer is pretty
by l_t 7y ago
I'm very sympathetic to this perspective. If your options are:
1. Stay at unethical job you hate.
2. Get a new job you don't hate.
Well, the answer is pretty obvious. But there is a deeper challenge, which is the choice between:
1. Stay at unethical job you don't hate.
2. Damage/destroy your career and job prospects.
This latter scenario is really a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation. It forces you to pick. Would you rather be virtuous (i.e. ethical), or be paid?
> You can't just walk away from a decent income because idealism.
Sure you can. You just choose not to -- and (IMO) that's fine.
- FZ1 7y ago> Sure you can. You just choose not to. Much in the same way that you can jump in front of a moving bus if you want to - you just choose not to. The implication is not that it's _impossible_ to walk away - it's that it just doesn't make any damn sense, given the likely outcomes.