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No one interested in box 6: not f*cking our planet and other humans?
by forty 2y ago
No one interested in box 6: not f*cking our planet and other humans?
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> No one interested in box 6: not fcking our planet and other humans?* Empirically, no. It's an exernality. Expecting private parties to manage externalities in economic transactions is nice, but demonstrably insufficient.
- steanne 2y agoi'd file that with - Lack of obstacle/roadblocks to actually doing good work ...good having more than one meaning
- bgnn 2y agoI have a similar expectation: not working for any military tech and supporting genocide (with tech or association). It's so disappointing to see how many people don't mind working on weapons.
- stagger87 2y agoWorking on weapons is important to maintain the freedom to be disappointed in others working on weapons.
- bshacklett 2y agoI think you need a level of stability which generally doesn't exist in today's working environment to be able to pick an employer based on that metric.
- forty 2y agoI don't argue that choosing his employer is a luxury few can afford, but this is true of the other boxes. You might have to trade some boxes for the others are will (especially the first one regarding compensation - as it turns out, in this world there is strong correlation between "f*cking the planet and other humans" and making a lot of money)
- cudgy 2y agoGoogle employees felt that way at one time, relying on the old motto “Do no evil”. How’d that work out?
- alkonaut 2y agoDepends. I wouldn’t want to work in the oil industry if I could avoid it. But I’m sure it could be greenwashed, even to myself. I’d have no second thoughts about working in defense (I’m from a small country on Russia’s doorstep, not the US if that matters), quite the opposite it would be filled with interesting technical problems I’m sure. But defense usually has terrible wfh policies.