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> you will soon find that there are very little companies that you would allow yourself to work for. That’s literally the idea. People doing bad things should
by cormacrelf 5y ago
> you will soon find that there are very little companies that you would allow yourself to work for.
That’s literally the idea. People doing bad things should find hiring minions difficult.
- jlcoff 5y ago"bad things" is a subjective concept. A former roommate was building a website in the mid 2000 for a dildo company. You probably don't care, but a religious zealot might consider it "bad". We're gonna make a deal, I'll let you work in ad-tech, and you let me build tool which allow people to shoot themselves in the foot.
- cormacrelf 5y agoI work in academia. I will never work in ad-tech either.
- jlcoff 5y agoAcademia is even more of a scam than tech...
- deanCommie 5y agoTaking a fully relativist perspective on morality is just an excuse to justify taking no ethical stance on anything at all. It's certainly your choice to exist in society this way, but you can't be surprised if people correctly criticize it as selfish, self-serving, and morally bankrupt. At least embrace it.
- lowkey 5y agoBut how far are you as an individual willing to go? - Apple uses exploitative labor practices to manufacture iPhones [0] - Google is increasingly being recognized as a surveillance and manipulation platform. They have even been caught manipulating elections [1] [0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/29/lens-technology-apple-uighur/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/29/lens-te... [1] https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/download/epstein-testimony https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/download/epstein-testimony
- jlcoff 5y agoBig tech get a free pass because, in the western world at least, they offer their regular sacrifice to the dogmatic left God.