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I was wondering , if you will be ready to work fof an organisation that you oppose ideologically , for instance you are against big oil but you get a job interview in exxonmobil with good pay , would you consider it ?

*Edit : Recently a friend of mine got a marketing job for a company that had shady business practices , selling their product to gullible parents. Since it was a marketing job , the pay was good but my friend left it within a week , saying it does not suit his ideology.

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[โ€“] CoderKat@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think it's more a question of where the line is. You virtually always have to compromise in at least some small ways.

Would you work for a company where the CEO is an outspoken bigot? What about a company that constructs weapons for the military that you know will be used to kill thousands? Or one of those scam call centers, where your entire job would be scamming the elderly? Or taking to even more extremes, what about a criminal gang where you may have to directly kill people? For that matter, what about indirectly killing people, like if your employer is a massive polluter?

Some of these I'm not even certain of my answer for. In my current situation, I'm well off and don't need to worry much about pay and finding work is easy. But what if I was in a desperate situation, where I was struggling to find work that paid enough to sanely live on? I know I'd definitely have a lower threshold then, but where exactly it lies is hard to say when I'm not in such a situation.

[โ€“] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It's the same with boycotts. If you're in poverty and the only close store is a Walmart, good luck boycotting them. You do the best you can within the means you have.