Selling out

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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

burgersc12

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."

jawa21

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

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301 Moved Permanently

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Not twisting your arm, but I always wonder what my limit is, and if they added more to it.

Scrubbles

Very rational take. You learn entering the world that every company has a dark side, and every person has a line, but that line shifts.

Personally I'd avoid Lockheed, but when it comes to paying the mortgage, the bank is surprisingly not very amenable to me not having a job. I'd love to avoid working at any bad company, but I'd probably have to sell my house and live out of a studio, and my family would suffer for it.

So I give some graces. For example, people shame folks who work at amazon, but Amazon pays the bills. What I personally have changed to is judging people for being gung ho about a company, happy with what the company is doing, or are they just there as a job. If you're in accounting and you just loooove working for Amazon and think they do no wrong, then yes I judge a lot

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Well someone has be on the defense

socsa

It's not like China is going to stop making weapons if I refuse to make weapons.

Ellen_musk_ox

Excellent opportunity for sabotage.

socsa

...everything

DreamButt

Selling out being an option for people just means the system is working as intended. People are so poor they are willing to compromise their morals to keep food on the table

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It was freaking tempting. It was a 70% raise.

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The firebombings, dingus.

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My parents said the same thing about air pollution and carbon emissions

stebo

yeah this is a really stupid argument

"It's not like Israël is gonna stop killing Palestinians if I refuse to kill Palestinians"

socsa

I suppose the difference is that a country doesn't just get conquered by force if it stops polluting.