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The Perks Are Great, Just Don’t Ask What We Do

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Re: The Perks Are Great, Just Don’t Ask What We Do

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I had an employer once who was about to cross the line, by getting a project from the gambling business. A cool software/hardware project (service interfaces for casino machines) that seemed to match my skills. I flat-out declined participation. He actually was very relieved, he was himself uncomfortable with it. The other time I threatened my employer with leaving on the spot if I ever see the shady spam-marketing t…

> Let's get on with Basic Income Won't that just cause all the amoral people in politics to begin promising to raise the basic income more than the next politician will, reducing all policymaking to a race to bribe the populace, so that they'll ignore all the other amoral things the politicians are doing?

> Won't that just cause all the amoral people in politics to begin promising to raise the basic income more than the next politician will

No, the same as all policymaking now isn't reduced to a race to bribe the populace with tax cuts.

Re: The Perks Are Great, Just Don’t Ask What We Do

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>you need to loosen from a theoretical moral ideal to a practical one that is informed by the competitive landscape of capitalism Not necessarily. It's very easy to think that existing industry protection laws are immoral and operate a company that skirts those laws without breaking morals.

Can you? I mean, at that point, you're basically deciding that a people are not allowed to self govern themselves.

Yes, it's very easy to operate within personal moral boundaries when you fundamentally believe existing government laws support immoral stances. (e.g. drug dealers selling people marijuana for pain relief or people refusing to transact with slave owners)
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