“Sure we destroyed the planet as we knew it, but for a brief moment in time, we increased value for shareholders!”
“Sure we destroyed the planet as we knew it, but for a brief moment in time, we increased value for shareholders!”
It’s more depressing than we weren’t paying for lunch
Because billionaires lobbied congress to reduce budget for public schools
Oh I am thinking of them… how to murder shareholders in various unique ways… could be neat game idea too!
Someday even the air you breathe will be sold by a corporation… then your comment will appear silly.
Let’s say we continue down this path. Soon you can’t even live the way you want because some corp will control things like when you eat, when you sleep, what media you consume,… oh wait…
I think I can distill many of the replies to this question in a few checks that may apply generally (exceptions abound, and i could just be wrong)
Are you intimately familiar (subject matter expert level) with the nasty outcomes of what you would be doing on a daily basis at this company? If yes its better it was YOU and not somebody else.
How much separation is there between what you do and the nasty outcomes? If you pull the trigger on a drone… I get thats unacceptable to some people.
Does not doing the activity make something else even more worse? (Frying pan vs. Fire dilemma)
Are you only doing this because there’s no other real choice? (Poverty)
So people never accomplished anything on Unix?
Don’t treat existing code/design/archtecture is sacred until it’s backed up by static analysis proving it is bug-free.
Behqving like my dad: whiny, removed, gaslighting Son of a moron who blames the person if their process doesn’t work.
Oh ok i am dumb. I misread the comment
boring
Boring is good. I too would like to live in a boring village, Just loaf around and watch leaves fall or something.
It’s easy to make some smart bets when you can make many bets and fail over and over and not become destitute.
“Authoritarian-left” hmmm…
If management weren’t lazy they would make work much much smoother so engineers can actually solve problems they are excited about instead of workaround shitty management policies and decisions.
Sounds quite evil then, this definition of crime and legality.
When evil hides behind legality, there’s no moral imperative for good people to follow laws.
Fake my death, Collect the paycheck, Settle in Hawaii or something.
When move fast and break things is applied to relationships?
Then you should hopefully limit your distrust to Covid and not extend the same to Measles vaccine.
Young people may perhaps be even doing it deliberately as a protest.