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There is a feedback problem people don't realize when a moral filter is added to an organization. I observed in Financial Tech that when the world judged banke

There is a feedback problem people don't realize when a moral filter is added to an organization. I observed in Financial Tech that when the world judged bankers as bad... it attracted self-identified bad people to become bankers. People who desired to do good filtered themselves out of the industry, leaving a really horrible selection of individuals running our national financial institutions. Its really hard to digest, but I think self-identified good people MUST work at 'bad' places. Or else those places will become even worse as they become lost in a sea of real evil.

blueprint 12y ago
Places turn "bad" as-such when they are beyond repair. Do you believe that's it's possible to make the groups in power reform? If not, then it's impossible to make such a bad organization into a good one again, and we must start from scratch by cutting off the sections which have gone bad. Moreover, it is wrong for anyone to rationalize complicity in injustices. It doesn't matter what our intentions or level of prior ignorance are. If you make your money off things connected to something wrong, your way of life becomes wrong by connection. Perhaps these bitters truths are even more difficult to accept, and perhaps that is why people more commonly choose the more comfortable route of believing that they bear no responsibility for the company they keep.
eyeareque 12y ago
Take one for the team so to say? I don't think I could do it. I'd feel negative about myself and the contributions my job made to the world.
imh 12y ago
But for ages, you'll just have to follow orders and do the bad stuff, otherwise get fired. Hell, someone else in the thread talked about a friend who didn't even know what he was working on. For good people to have a good effect, they have to be at the top, and getting there without doing bad things seems hard. No idea what the solution here is, but I agree the feedback issue is important.
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blueprint 12y ago

Places turn "bad" as-such when they are beyond repair. Do you believe that's it's possible to make the groups in power reform? If not, then it's impossible to make such a bad organization into a good one again, and we must start from scratch by cutting off the sections which have gone bad. Moreover, it is wrong for anyone to rationalize complicity in injustices. It doesn't matter what our intentions or level of prior ignorance are. If you make your money off things connected to something wrong, your way of life becomes wrong by connection. Perhaps these bitters truths are even more difficult to accept, and perhaps that is why people more commonly choose the more comfortable route of believing that they bear no responsibility for the company they keep.

eyeareque 12y ago

Take one for the team so to say? I don't think I could do it. I'd feel negative about myself and the contributions my job made to the world.

imh 12y ago

But for ages, you'll just have to follow orders and do the bad stuff, otherwise get fired. Hell, someone else in the thread talked about a friend who didn't even know what he was working on. For good people to have a good effect, they have to be at the top, and getting there without doing bad things seems hard. No idea what the solution here is, but I agree the feedback issue is important.

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