I see, so the Meta employees have the typical conservative mindset: any misdeed is perfectly fine as long as it doesn’t affect you personally.
That’s what I thought - it’s probably not just the employees of social media companies who feel this way, but also those at Palantir and similar. Not to mention the “defense” contractors and the like.
I really wonder how these people can still look at themselves in the mirror.
I knew a guy who went to work for palantir a bunch of years ago. Was always friendly at work. I asked him “but what’re you going to do if they do bad stuff, like spying on people?”
He just shrugged. Didn’t care. The money was good.
I don’t know if this alone is proof that’s a bad person, but I think it precludes him from being a good one.
I would argue no. Partly because I am in a similar situation. But also because I would be a fool to quit such a stable, laid back job in a market where it is extremely difficult to find a job in my field.
Granted I also do care. But not enough to risk poverty.
It’s hard to make a full judgment without knowing more details but “the pay is good and it’s easy” isn’t really a compelling justification for “and I help evil manifest in the world”.
Again I would like to avoid poverty in a market where I am very unlikely to get a “non-evil” job.
I don’t want to keep trying to justify my position as I have already made myself a pariah. so I will just leave this here and encourage people in similar positions to read it.
https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf
I see, so the Meta employees have the typical conservative mindset: any misdeed is perfectly fine as long as it doesn’t affect you personally.
That’s what I thought - it’s probably not just the employees of social media companies who feel this way, but also those at Palantir and similar. Not to mention the “defense” contractors and the like.
I really wonder how these people can still look at themselves in the mirror.
I knew a guy who went to work for palantir a bunch of years ago. Was always friendly at work. I asked him “but what’re you going to do if they do bad stuff, like spying on people?”
He just shrugged. Didn’t care. The money was good.
I don’t know if this alone is proof that’s a bad person, but I think it precludes him from being a good one.
Mercenary mindset. No snowflake feels responsible for the avalanche.
Why does the military advertise the most towards the poor?
Why don’t presidents fight the war?
Why do they always send the poor? 🤘
I would argue no. Partly because I am in a similar situation. But also because I would be a fool to quit such a stable, laid back job in a market where it is extremely difficult to find a job in my field.
Granted I also do care. But not enough to risk poverty.
It’s hard to make a full judgment without knowing more details but “the pay is good and it’s easy” isn’t really a compelling justification for “and I help evil manifest in the world”.
Again I would like to avoid poverty in a market where I am very unlikely to get a “non-evil” job. I don’t want to keep trying to justify my position as I have already made myself a pariah. so I will just leave this here and encourage people in similar positions to read it. https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf