I mean working somewhere like Qualcomm or Microsoft when you care about FOSS, democracy, and the public commons, or a weapons manufacturer for a military that invades other countries and kills innocent people in their homes.
I mean working somewhere like Qualcomm or Microsoft when you care about FOSS, democracy, and the public commons, or a weapons manufacturer for a military that invades other countries and kills innocent people in their homes.
I mean, as long as I’m not directly working on a weapon, its fine. Every job you do for money is contributing to the GDP and indirectly supporting your country, any corruption, police brutality, human rights violations, persecution, war, everyone is contributing to it in some way.
The only way to truly decouple yourself from the system is going offgrid and farming for yourself, otherwise, everyone is complicit, we are all “sinners” in this world.
The Good Place talks about this. You buy a random tomato and you are contributing to climate change, you lose points for it, you end up in “hell” (The Bad Place).
I’ve read a lot of comments in this thread, but this one feels the most accurate to me.
Companies can do many things. If a company actively saved the lives of 100 people, but also actively killed 1 person, would you work there? Is there a number (either) where you would? Companies can be grey, many are.
It’s not a “free pass”, but look at the overall ethical footprint. If you’re ok with it, it’s fine. It doesn’t need to be pure, you just have to be ok with it.