This is not worth mentioning. Everyone knows that you can sell out your values for money and comfort. Most people just aren’t willing to do it for such relatively low benefits.
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jasondj@ttrpg.network 10 months agoWorth mentioning that there are well paying, stable jobs in the MIC for the other 99%. I work for a sub (in IT, and spend most of my time on the commercial side of the business) in such a company. While I resent our biggest revenue maker, it does enable the company to fund scientific research and commercial space endeavors.
I wouldn’t call myself a bootlicker, per se, but I do enjoy my job, despite what I’ve started viewing as a necessary evil — the pay and benefits are highly competitive, I’m 98% WFH, layoffs and turnover are rare (there are regularly people retiring who had entered straight from college), the job is challenging and I’m given a long leash.
emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Alchemy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Did they at least give you a nice dog collar for that leash?
tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Why not call yourself a bootlicker? I’m sure many would.
hdnsmbt@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“I mean, I know my work contributes to some of the worst atrocities of mankind but they give me a lot of money and benefits for forgetting that I actively contribute in facilitating the slaughter of children which makes it easier to swallow. Also I get to work from home a lot! ❤️”
jasondj@ttrpg.network 9 months ago
Eh, that may be how you see it.
Personally I’ve been more directly involved in actually helping people and things go to the fricken moon than I have in all of my defense projects, combined. I can do that stuff, I’m authorized to, in a pinch I can, but I would really rather not. Work on that side of the house sucks.
hdnsmbt@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s not so much “how I see it” as it is “how it is” and you don’t seem to deny that.
I understood that you prefer not to work on the child-killing devices the first time. Nonetheless all the other “cool science markets” still help your employer make those child-killing devices.
While the sausage will keep being made, I can actively choose not to be the butcher and I’m having a hard time respecting people gushing about their work on the non-butchering side of the same company.
jasondj@ttrpg.network 9 months ago
No, you have it backwards, the child killing devices enable my employer to do the cool science markets.
Revenue from child killing devices and related patents pays for the science research. And as it turns out, a lot of those patents also work really well for the cool life-saving science stuff.