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> Gadaffi... South Africa... What about the US federal government? Banks and investment firms? The oil companies? Blackwater, Haliburton, Bechtel and the like?
by einpoklum 6y ago
> Gadaffi... South Africa...
What about the US federal government? Banks and investment firms? The oil companies? Blackwater, Haliburton, Bechtel and the like? Mineral extraction companies? Or perhaps - Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft et al, who spy on you all the time?
> There are obvious and important differences between war and management consulting. The first straightforwardly involves killing people, the latter does not.
Well, a lot of the companies I mentioned above delegate the killing of people to other elements. E.g the government and its military forces.
- badrequest 6y agoThey’re also bad, and the author never said otherwise. Why engage in whataboutism here?
- dmurray 6y agoWell, one point is that it's almost impossible to do for-profit work without benefiting someone who's a little bit evil (certainly if you feel all those entities are "also bad"). If we could instead pick 4 or 5 regimes that we consider to be the standard Bad Guys, with the benefit of history and a Western viewpoint, and just say it's clearly evil to work directly for them - then the author's thesis is much less valid.
- einpoklum 6y agoBecause it may change the default: Perhaps you're more likely to end up doing immoral than moral work / working for an immoral, violent, indirectly-homicidal organization. The esoteric clients like Gadaffi rare.
- missedthecue 6y agoWhat's wrong with haliburton