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Working for a company that exploits [mostly] kids/teens' attention while being aware of the long term negative psychological effects of such.
by elevenoh 5y ago
Working for a company that exploits [mostly] kids/teens' attention while being aware of the long term negative psychological effects of such.
- ramesh31 5y agoWe all hate it, but it pays the bills. It's ultimately better to be in this position as a thoughtful person aware of the consequences of your work, since they would just replace you with someone less conscionable otherwise.
- texasbigdata 5y agoExtended to absurdity this framework leads to cringey edge examples about could be justified on the basis “someone worse” exists.
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- yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago> It's ultimately better to be in this position as a thoughtful person aware of the consequences of your work, since they would just replace you with someone less conscionable otherwise. If you do the same work, what does it matter?
- znpy 5y agoNo it doesn't matter, but hypocrites will keep on saying this along with other lies to avoid facing the reality, that is that they are complicit in doing whatever they don't regard as ethical or whatever. I haven't seen many people just plain say it: "the company I work for does harm but I don't care because I get a fat paycheck every month".
- danielheath 5y agoThe harm done to your psyche when you work on something you know makes the world worse is… hard to recover from.
- krabnik 5y ago> The harm done to your psyche Are you being serious? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaGQ3KGOMto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaGQ3KGOMto
- jwilber 5y agoI don’t buy it, that’s just more useless virtue-signaling. It feels like every other week on Twitter I read a thread from someone announcing their leave from FB for ethical reasons, conveniently ignoring the years they spent there happy with their paycheck.
- dbt00 5y agoI think this is true for important but dangerous things, but I think it's vacuous and false for dangerous and unimportant things.
- abeyer 5y ago> It's ultimately better For who? I'm not convinced that keeping things subtly bad, but maybe acceptable enough that users don't revolt, is necessarily a better outcome for anyone.