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How much less would you make working at another, less evil company?

I've been very influenced by Isabel Wilkerson's new book to look at America as having a racial caste system that's 400 years old. The entire economic and political history and pres…

Why do you hang out with people who don't care about ethics?

Among many other points, more than half the laws you mention are terrible. We shouldn't be banning people in need from taking food or shelter when there's an extreme excess of both…

Markets and liberalism have been failing so drastically for decades that fascism is rising across the globe. What evidence do you see that this is going to change in time to preven…

You're right, when someone who isn't Jewish says "the Jews" it sounds weird and is followed by "control the banks" often enough that it sets me on edge.

> any foreigner can move to the US to contribute to and enjoy the benefits of being #1 This is not true. There's, at a minimum, hundreds of millions of people who'd like to move he…

From the Israeli newspaper Haaretz: 'Revealed: Israel's Cyber-spy Industry Helps World Dictators Hunt Dissidents and Gays' "Within a few years, the Israeli espionage industry has b…

The answer is that being a human with moral and ethical obligations to the rest of humanity should take precedence over being a corporate leader. If you don't sell censorship and w…

Uhhh why would you be ok with someone who chooses to use their labor to work for a racist/kitten murdering website because it’s a “technical challenge”? I’m sure keeping the Daily …

Sounds like the "Assassination Market" theory of decentralizing power from the 1990s.

I don't think the poster was just talking about money, although there may also be a time-value factor for other things (health, neural plasticity, etc).

Their public transit and food kitchen access is more important than your wife being able to walk to the supermarket without getting hollered at.

What about the last 15 years leads you to believe that we can rely on startup founders to care about safety and ethics?

There is no loyalty when dealing with profit.

If "I would screw over my entire society in exchange for performance fees" isn't the definition of immoral, what is? Why would you do that?

What's the case for "billion-dollar companies using neuroscience to manipulate the behavior of individuals is a moral and societal good"? Neuromarketing seems pretty straightforwar…

Are you sure that most people would interpret "savings account" to include checking accounts, gold bars stashed under their bed, Schwab accounts, etc? I'm not.

"They 'trust me.' Dumb fucks" - Mark Zuckerberg, 2004. Facebook is not going to fix the problems they're leveraging to make billions of dollars.

Also see "Bitcoin's lien problem": > "Indeed, given the high volume of fraud and default in the bitcoin network, chances are most bitcoins have competing claims over them by now. P…

It is possible to say no to the incentives of doing evil work; I would describe those who say no as the people with "a strong sense of personal values and ethics". This phrase has …

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