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Just because a business has practices you do not agree with, does not mean the people working there are all bad. I'm not sure why that is hard to understand. A

• smt88 4y ago
  > seems pretty hypocritical if you ask me. That's going to be true of everyone else's morality. Even your own is not 100% consistent. You can't let perfect be the enemy of good. The difference between crypto and Amazon (as I said elsewhere) is that Amazon has ostensibly a good product: they sell people things. Their business is abusive of workers, but most people don't really know that. "We" (the people on HN) know about it because we're very-online people, but it's not common knowledge. So I'm willing to believe that someone is well-intentioned, takes a job at Amazon without knowing how abusive they are, and has good values in the end. I believe that many crypto employees are good, moral people, but they don't really understand how the industry works. That's fine -- I don't want to hire them because they don't understand the space, which tells me they aren't very smart. I'm hiring very few people, and I want to hire ones that understand systems very well (if I can!), including social and financial systems. The people who know it's a Ponzi scheme and still work there are the ones I would call immoral and refuse to hire on moral grounds.