Selling out

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Who has the least ethical job at Lockheed?

My money is on the salesman, "this bad boy can kill so many children"

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By shifting what you sell to “this bad boy can disperse your targeted package across an area x by y in z time frame” instead of “we can turn the entire school to rubble” you help them sleep at night.

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Boy Boy has a video where they sneak into a military weapons convention.

One guy was selling crowd control armor and advertised the dissociation from your actions that armor like that creates, divorcing you from guilt.

moosetwin

ain't no rest for the wicked

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Does their workforce in D.C count?

ivanafterall ☑️

Consider for instance some comfortable English professor defending Russian totalitarianism. He cannot say outright, ‘I believe in killing off your opponents when you can get good results by doing so’. Probably, therefore, he will say something like this:

‘While freely conceding that the Soviet regime exhibits certain features which the humanitarian may be inclined to deplore, we must, I think, agree that a certain curtailment of the right to political opposition is an unavoidable concomitant of transitional periods, and that the rigors which the Russian people have been called upon to undergo have been amply justified in the sphere of concrete achievement.’

George Orwell

SharkAttak

You gotta enter the building to reach the CEO taps forehead

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I had a job offer from Cambridge Analytica, they were up front about the work they were doing as well as the pay. Though it was tempting to sell my soul for the pay, even I have my limits.

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

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And money don't grow on trees

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Even Lockheed Martin looks down on Boeing.

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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

I got bills to pay, I got mouths to feed

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At least its not NSO group or Booz Allen.

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And even maintaining Lemmy ain't free...

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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

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

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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.

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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.