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In other words, “yes I’m helping grifters scam people, but it sure pays well.”
by D13Fd 4y ago
In other words, “yes I’m helping grifters scam people, but it sure pays well.”
- yao420 4y agoPretty much. After watching the Sackler family escape with billions despite destroying America with opioids I’ve come to the conclusion that America is garbage and there is nothing important here except money. I’m securing my family and their future, nothing else. But yeah crypto grifts sucks but my college roommate now works at Goldman Sachs, an old university TA works Exxon offshore drilling, a couple of classmates are African logistics specialists (acquire land at ANY cost including literally lying to poor peasants to sign over property) at Bain. Is there a ranking for better or worse? All of capitalism and by extension society is rotten to the core.
- akaij 4y agoThis reminds me of the speech in The West Wing, where the president explains his reasoning for accepting the censure. No one takes responsibility for anything anymore. We foster, we obfuscate, we rationalise. "Everybody does it." That's what we say. So we come to occupy a moral safe house where everyone's to blame so no one's guilty. I'm to blame. I was wrong. If at the end of the day you can sleep well, more power to you! But things will continue to decline if everyone's only looking out for themselves.
- pcthrowaway 4y agoI work in crypto (for a company that does market making) and I don't think I'm doing philanthropic work, but let's not kid ourselves into thinking it's any less ethical than working for MANGA.