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@skinnylatte they tell me the work is mysterious and important

@skinnylatte I think the premise of #Severance resonated with people because it is a fantasy where workers can remain blissfully ignorant and morally blameless, since they couldn't possibly know about any evil things their employer is doing.

The real world under capitalism sucks because we know all the evil things that companies are doing, but are told that we need to keep working for them anyway.

@skinnylatte I've worked in IT security for a bank for more than 20 years.

@skinnylatte @moar_powah never saw Severance but loved this article.

@skinnylatte I doubt that Emily is a good person. Also McSweeney‘s.

@skinnylatte Sounds like lots of justification going on.

"I just work at the concentration camp Mondays through Friday. On the weekends, I play soccer with my children."

"I was just following orders."

"Arbeit macht frei"

@skinnylatte I ended an online friendship instantly because the guy went to work at Lockheed-Martin.

@skinnylatte I feel like when I say stuff along the lines of ‘any devs who are working at the big 5 tech companies are shitheads because they choose to work for companies that make the world worse in so many ways’ people look at me funny.

I understand everyone has to work to survive, and that a lot of jobs generate some harm because of the system we live in, but a lot of devs aspire to work at these big companies because they can make massive salaries, despite knowing the harm involved.

@skinnylatte Brilliant.

And this: "I just don’t think working at an evil company should define me. I’ve only worked here for seven years. What about the twenty-five years before, when I didn’t work here? In fact, I wasn’t working at all for the first eighteen years of my life. And for some of those early years, I didn’t even have object permanence, which is oddly similar to the sociopathic detachment with which I now think about other humans."

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"We all have to decide for ourselves how much sin we can live with."

- Nucky Thompson

@skinnylatte I hear this, and for sure there are places I WON'T work, but I'm in biotech so (like info tech) my options for not-evil are limited. I just have to try for not-actively-building-the-torment-nexus.

@skinnylatte The most intriguing idea in Three Body Problem for me might be: what if aliens had never developed cognitive dissonance, and how horrifying would that make us to them?

@skinnylatte I gave up about 5 years ago, snd before that bounced between poorly paid government work and much better paid interesting work. The latter I eventually worked out was mostly evil.

I no longer think it’s possible to do well paid tech stuff without significant moral compromise.

@skinnylatte It was fairly accurate to my work in corporate IT for 15 years.

@skinnylatte that link nails it

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All-day this.

@skinnylatte This is fantastic. I know too many people who would be really offended if I shared this with them. Maybe that is a problem and also a good reason to do so and see if our friendships survive.

@skinnylatte oh no this is me: And when it comes to making things even, I put my money where my mouth is. I might make more than 99 percent of all Americans, but I also make sure to donate almost 1 percent of my salary to nonprofits. This way, I can wear their company tote bag to my local food coop. Did I mention I shop at a local food coop? It’s quite literally the least I could do.