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Feeling quite a lot of schadenfreude for Meta today. Bummer for those laid off employees... but remember, if you take a job with an ethically vacuous corporation like Meta, you're making your own bed. Who you choose to work for (especially if you have a role with decision making responsibility) is an ethical decision.
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@lightweight bit of an unfair take. Many corporate jobs (esp. in the US) are for “ethically vacuous” corporations whether it be in defense, big tech, or finance. People do need to make a living.
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@jaredkschreiber unfortunately, I consider all of those industries you describe to be inherently unethical and actively making the world a worse place. I think people need to be really honest about the affect their job has on the world. Most people aren't, because they want a big salary and/or they've decided to go into big debt (e.g. a mortgage) and need to rationalise doing the work that lets them pay for it. They suffer with massive cognitive dissonance.
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How about we throw all profitable work, where the profit isn't reinvested into society, into that picture?
Also any work or living situation that is a benefit from a removal/conquest of an indigenous population?
Where do you draw the line?
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@lightweight @lwriemen I think this line of arguing would make a lot more sense if we could figure out how to make a business model that made, for example, operating a mastodon instance make enough money for someone to pay the rent. Until we can live off OSS corporate day jobs are what techies have to do.
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@jaredkschreiber @lwriemen I dunno. I've lived on a 100% #FOSS business model for the past 23 years... yes, I've been fortunate and have privilege, but it's definitely possible. It just takes the will to commit to it.
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@lwriemen @jaredkschreiber We draw the line a lot closer to the interests of those parties than it's arbitrarily drawn now :)