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At some level every productive job enables bad things to happen. Farmers grow food that allows people to eat and code up ransomware. So at some point you have
by parsimo2010 5y ago
At some level every productive job enables bad things to happen. Farmers grow food that allows people to eat and code up ransomware. So at some point you have to decide that you are satisfied with your job being far enough away from the people directly doing bad things, and also satisfied that your job helps people do some good things as well.
- danielmarkbruce 5y agoTo further illustrate your point - a dentist who thoroughly background checks all her customers to ensure they are good needs to thoroughly background check all her customers customers and so on. The only solution is living on a farm and completely isolating yourself from everyone. You also can't use any products or services produced by anyone because the chain of profits goes the other way too. Short of obviously bad companies (like those selling cigarettes perhaps), most companies are mostly doing good things for mostly good customers who are mostly trying to do good things and so on. I know a good number of people and while some might be a little greedier than others, and some others are disorganized and get themselves into situations where they are desperate and do something not great, none of them are genuinely bad people. Some of the very best people I know work in ads, and some of them at Facebook.