Anyone else working in tech for the past few years having more frequent existential crises about what they have enabled? I have never worked at FB, but I've worked at a few well known yet somewhat controversial companies (in fintech, marketplaces, etc.) that I sometimes feel uneasy about.
Took me several years past school just to get used to the ordinary level of dishonesty and scumminess that's common to pretty much all business, let alone the worse stuff. Sometimes I think my parents (and, to be fair, children's media) messed up by giving me such a keen sense of right and wrong. Enough otherwise-decent people (like, almost all of them) seem to just look at you like there's something wrong with you w…
But you're a better person for it, don't forget that.
Life's a shitty wooden roller coaster that jostles your neck too much for most of us, but the alternative is not experiencing it at all.
We're pretty fortunate. Start looking for jobs which align with your ideals.
Take a paycut and work at a non profit.
Find an open source maintainer role at a company somewhere.
Find a role at a company building a product you like.
You can do it relatively passively while still working. No harm in looking!