Selling out

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I’m sure I still don’t appreciate that historically speaking the world has been quite a dangerous place.

I’m not a fan of dead kids or rich men sending the young to die for them, but I cannot deny my lifestyle significantly benefits from the fact top military spenders align with my ideology. (e.g. I’m better off with a powerful USA than North Korea)

Would be interesting if a new generation of principled Americans were responsible for a change where defense contractors knew to attract modern talent they had to provide assurances against outputs being used for evil. I’m naïve enough to think that might be possible.

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Before reading the text I was expecting a Saddam joke. After reading seems even more applicable.

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What did Booz Allen do?

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I got a Raytheon for missile targeting systems. Didn't want it on my conscience and got another offer for slightly less money but way more ethical of a company a week later.

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The EU wouldn't be able to get away with the low defense spending. Even with the war in Ukraine, they seemed to realize they're spending too little. Granted, the US does overspend.

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So does Boeing... Boeing is a massive defense contractor as well.

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Boing makes the Apache and B52 which have killed a hell of a lot of people. Definitely more than Lockheed Martin aircraft

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Literal career assassins? Could this dumb world get THAT cyberpunk?

Headline: “Another accounting assassin, another salaried slayer, another rich revolutionary, leaves employer headless while leaving $300K savings account to save babies with cancer”

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When in Rome…

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Lots of refreshingly, considered takes on Lemmy today

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I work in healthcare IT, we develop medical systems which help physicians to help people. It sounds like a good field to work in, but it's still about money in the end, looking for ways to maximise profits, because we live in a capitalist system. As long as profits play the main role, there always is a dark side.

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What are you the next CEO of United healthcare? Get some fucking ethics bitch

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After a history of ethically questionable jobs, I thought I had escaped it into something almost benign where we were only wasting the money of other companies.
Recently we started going balls deep into making AI products, and I feel very uncomfortable with it

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You think they got TR3B's there? I bet they do

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Sweet, glad that worked out for you. I've learned for certain types of work I gotta ask whether it's on the attack vs defense side of military work, at least a couple of interviewers have been taken aback by such an apparently blunt question, that it "isn't such a relevant question".

In my mind, both times I was wondering why they thought I'd be happy with coming to work every day if it was for something even possibly negative. Engineers hey paid to pay attention to details, the fuck wouldn't I be able to piece this shit together from within?

Compartmentalization is a cute concept on paper.

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My sib has a friend that constantly criticizes others b/c they marginally contribute to injustices in the world (one example is how a family friend votes that specifically puts others at a disadvantage for affordable housing, making them commute for hours on end). That friend also worked with Purdue Pharmaceuticals defense team during their lawsuit lol

It's crazy to me how so many ppl can be so oblivious to their own hypocrisies.

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Honestly I wouldn't give the credit from nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Boeing, b29s were barely assisting on delivering the real deal

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Yup. "Capitalism values only what it can count, and it can only count dollars. Every capitalist wants to invest as little and profit as much as possible."

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Before I went independent, I made many thousands of parts for General Dynamics up to and including missile housings. It's a shitty feeling.

Possibly linux

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