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It is always easy to say that someone else should go out of business to save the planet for you. I often see this on HN in form of "working on X thing is immor
by nextlevelwizard 5y ago
It is always easy to say that someone else should go out of business to save the planet for you.
I often see this on HN in form of "working on X thing is immoral and everyone should just quit and not accept that work" and it makes the commenter feel superior to all the immoral people who work on immoral projects all the while forgetting that people just want to put food on the table.
In case it is not painfully obvious to you by now: YOU would have also been following orders had you been there.
- akira2501 5y agoIt's not a binary, though. They could have openly petitioned for relief and offered their expert opinion on the current situation and the realities that faced them. I'm also entirely sure that the people who made this decision weren't thinking of food security, but just regular old securities.
- nextlevelwizard 5y agoThere are plenty of people working for Lufthansa whose jobs would cease to exist if the company (or part of it) goes under. Yeah, yeah, capitalism and greed, but at the end of the day if they lose their business it will have way larger effect than just some billionaire losing money.