Comment on Having the ability to lie and manipulate with no remorse will get you much further in this world than having morals and being correct

aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• realitista@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you are smart, you can afford the luxury of not being a complete piece of shit if you get into the right career.

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  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I feel like that has got to be pretty difficult unless you include jobs where you are personally isolated from and ignorant of the harmful things the company you contribute to is doing

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    • realitista@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean every company probably has some bad effect on the world, but there’s also benefit. You have to weight the benefits vs the harm. I don’t feel like I have to be personally evil in my job or that it’s a net negative on society. I think things are better in the world because of my work. Not all things, but better on balance.

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      • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Your other comments in this thread seem to contradict that a little, at least the idea that these harms or benefits would be visible enough to you to evaluate, since you claim to have switched positions when they started becoming more visible and something you would have had to engage with directly. For software in particular, you empower your users to do whatever they happen to choose to do with it.

        Which isn’t to say you’re doing the wrong thing. I just see the economy as a whole as an inherently cannibalistic system we have little choice but to be a contributing part of one way or another, with the main form of meaningful available agency being to minimize involvement rather than choosing how to be involved.

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  • aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What’s the “right career”?

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    • realitista@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      For me it was enterprise software

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      • aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I work in that myself, which allows me to be a step or two removed from being a complete piece of shit, but still pretty close to the shitscape.

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• blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I know plenty of moral smart people who are doing very well in life.

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• Samskara@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It might mean money and success.

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