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I worked at a now-defunct defense contractor with the typical inefficiencies of hyper-secrecy and government waste. A friend once asked, "aren't you conflict
by yowayb 9mo ago
I worked at a now-defunct defense contractor with the typical inefficiencies of hyper-secrecy and government waste.
A friend once asked, "aren't you conflicted that you're helping kill people?"
At the time, that question put serious doubt in my head. But years after, I realized all the inefficiency slows the machine down. Combine this with negative public opinion, and you've got the perfect machine for creating work that results in busy-ness and reduces actual battlefield harm.
The stories from this place are fun.
- ChrisMarshallNY 9mo agoI think Raytheon scored #1 on the Dilbert Index, at one time...
- psunavy03 9mo agoI frankly can't see how someone can look around at the world in 2026 and come to the conclusion that "military" == "automatically bad." There are bad actors in this world who would be more than happy to kill you and take your stuff because they feel like it, and these days some of them run countries.
- int_19h 9mo agoYes, but some of them run countries where we live in (and therefore working for military contractors in this country is literally helping kill people to take their stuff). This includes US where tech is so heavily concentrated.
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