Selling out

[explodicle@sh.itjust.works]

CEO because he likely gets paid mostly in shares, and it's really shareholders (not employees) who have the most choice in the matter.

[drdeadcrash@programming.dev]

And money don't grow on trees

[aeronmelon@lemmy.world]

Even Lockheed Martin looks down on Boeing.

[possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip]

Or looks up to Boeing

Although some companies like Boos Allen and NSO group blow both Lockheed Martin and Boeing out of the water.

[konalt@lemmy.world]

I got bills to pay, I got mouths to feed

[possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip]

At least its not NSO group or Booz Allen.

[rumba@lemmy.zip]

And even maintaining Lemmy ain't free...

[aa5b@lemmy.world]

I had an interview with a “mass email” provider. By the time I left it was clear to both of us that no way in hell.

Is it bad that I consider this much worse than a defense company? Lockheed has some cool tech and help protect my country, at the huge cost of killing so many. Cambridge Analytica indiscriminately attacks people’s privacy, all people, and for profit with no hint at a good purpose

[areyouevenreal@lemm.ee]

If your country is the USA I am not sure it's worth of protecting.

[rubberelectrons@lemmy.world]

Raytheon too. Job offer was $$$weet, but it was related to making missiles yet more efficient.

No, I don't think we need to turn brown kids into skeletons yet more efficiently, thanks.

[byteonbikes@slrpnk.net]

Every corp you work at has a dark side. Maybe not Lockheed Martin level of destruction.

• My current job, we build systems to get people to spend more for things they don't need.

• My last job, we provided technology to "free speech" folks and looked the other way unless legally obligated to take it down

• The nonprofit i worked for spent 80% of their time and energy just for funding. Like $2mil a year, and 1.6mil went to paying staff.

Sometimes jobs frame it to look like it's a positive.

• I worked at one company that "gave opportunities" to offshore engineers because they were a fraction the cost of Americans.

• Another company outsourced our graphic design to people on Fiverr to help fund "freelancers", and then repurpose the work for million dollar ad campaigns.

And for me, I just constantly think of what the line is and how much of it I can cross to feed my kids.

[hk65@sopuli.xyz]

The US is not a uniquely bad country TBH. Just another shitty one in a long line.

[jtee@lemmy.world]

Hot take but a world without the USA would probably have a lot more war in it.

[anticorp@lemmy.world]

Fuck off

[brbposting@sh.itjust.works]

Found the vid + timecode

[siethron@lemmy.world]

Wait... Lockheed martin kills people on Purpose

[brbposting@sh.itjust.works]

Sometimes you find maybe a startup that is for-purpose. So, not necessarily nonprofit, but exists to do something with a predominantly positive impact.

We have so few years here on earth that it feels good to do something that at least is not making any problems worse.

[brbposting@sh.itjust.works]

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.

[jaybone@lemmy.world]

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

[sir_pronoun@lemmy.world]

What did Booz Allen do?