This is an interesting discussion topic because both angles have good points and that feels unusual these days. On the one hand I think you’re right that some people need the work and that can justify pushing some minor ethical boundaries. On the other hand, the “I’m just doing my job” line of reasoning has been used to justify some pretty horrific stuff throughout history.
A line separating the two should certainly be drawn somewhere but I’m not sure exactly where to put it. I’m pretty confident that a lot of the bad stuff happening in the world right now would improve if more people were more thoughtful about where that line should be.
kautau@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The majority of high paid tech workers give fuck-all about ethics though. The amount of people that left Google, Microsoft, etc for their work with Israel’s military was negligible, and many of them probably have a decent financial cushion they could sit on while finding a new job, but the money is too good. And people are climbing over each other to get jobs at Palantir and the like. I’ve noticed a pretty big intersection with high paid tech workers and anarcho-capitalism, where they think as long as they and their families make it out ok, it doesn’t matter what happens to other.
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The fix for this is realizing how much you stress yourself out when you fuck over everybody around you, suddenly putting them in a worse mood, making them far less fun to be around, and putting yourself and loved ones around drivers who are more frazzled, and generally predisposing your neighbors to attack you rather than help you.
Anybody who does that, and calls it “selfish”, is fuckin dumb.