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[–] WhatSay@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago

Remember, you are just a cog in a machine, it just happens to be a death machine.

[–] LordGimp@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Currently have a contractor offer from NASA I'm probably going to turn down for a mom and pop electrical repair company lmao

Doesn't take much to be principled.

[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wait what was the ethical dilemma working with NASA?

[–] LordGimp@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

More or less the same you'd have working for Grumen or Lockheed. NASA wind tunnels were often critical tools in developing more efficient drone designs, for example. The product is the data, and you get no say in how that data is used.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

brah. You will merely break many peoples bodies with explosives in the name of capitalism, corruption and colonization.

At my job I corrupt entire countries full of children, starting at an early age. I run user bucket targetting experiments on them to get them to spend more and steer them to befriend "friends" I select for them to optimize some pennies for our network edge performance. The measurements and manipulation of their vulnerabilities never stops. I take high resolution scans of their faces that we can use for the rest of their life to identify them anywhere--all so they can change their face to be an animated fox face, or stuff like that. I hope authoritarians never get ahold of this info because that could be bad for these consumers/kids, but hopes and prayers are not exactly my job. We never delete their info because parents click through the terms of service to shut their kids up. We say we educate kids to learn to program but inside the company that concept is spoken of mockingly.

I measure and steer their temperament and engagement with new games that are open to their worst impulses, and keep them on the treadmill. I transcribe and save literally every single word they utter. I analyze those spoken words for sentiment, and to build an ongoing model of which bucket they belong in to maximize their spending. The loaner? the helper? the team player? authority truster? authority abuser? rule driven, rule antidriven? I have loot, friends, new games, and contrived self serving "bugs" for all of them to find and think they are exploiting the games without my knowing.

I teach them to get addicted to loot boxes and I arbitrage endorphin hits between their peers and from the game. I give them their entire range of their lifes highs and lows. The best and worst times of their short lives are things I hand out. The later at night it is, or the longer their session, the more loot I give them to keep them playing. Like an IV drip of drug where sometimes you need to squeeze the bag to push more through to feel that hit strongly even when exhausted, and get them to defy their parents' calls for them to sleep.

You think darkness is your issue. But you merely adopted the dark for a paycheck; I was born into it right out of school, moulded by it. I didn't see socially useful internet services till I was an old man, by then it was nothing to me but a different way to drive engagement and raise the value on my rsus. My legacy will be a path of human wreckage and misery, same as yours only much bigger.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You terrible terrible person. Do you still do this?

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

No, I moved on. The money was amazing though.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Damn, that’s a long ass wall pf text for a two letter company

“EA”

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 day ago

so quit ur job lmao???? incredible that you are able to be so eloquent with how you are abusing people in your work and display no remorse? (hope this is a joke if it is no hate)

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

Dan the company man felt loyalty to the corp After 16 years of service and a family to support He actually started to believe the weaponry and chemicals were for national defence 'Cause Danny had a mortgage and a boss to answer to The guilty don't feel guilty, they learn not to.

(The Irrationality of Rationality by NOFX).

[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 32 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The four horsemen of selling out:

  • Big Pharma

  • Big Oil

  • The military-industrial complex

  • Surveillance tech companies

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 2 points 1 day ago

Don't forget quants

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[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Basically every person with a job, usually and specially in this market.

[–] underwire212@lemm.ee 82 points 3 days ago (9 children)
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[–] sumguyonline@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Fuck the military complex of this species. I'm gonna build my own aerospace company, mine the asteroid belt, and build my own human habitat. With black jack... And hookers... And universal healthcare...

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[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 days ago

If you can get a job for LM, you can get a job somewhere else. If a bit more money persuades you to help build child pulverizing machines, you never had any ethics to begin with.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 97 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Every corp you work at has a dark side. Maybe not Lockheed Martin level of destruction.

  • My current job, we build systems to get people to spend more for things they don't need.

  • My last job, we provided technology to "free speech" folks and looked the other way unless legally obligated to take it down

  • The nonprofit i worked for spent 80% of their time and energy just for funding. Like $2mil a year, and 1.6mil went to paying staff.

Sometimes jobs frame it to look like it's a positive.

  • I worked at one company that "gave opportunities" to offshore engineers because they were a fraction the cost of Americans.

  • Another company outsourced our graphic design to people on Fiverr to help fund "freelancers", and then repurpose the work for million dollar ad campaigns.

And for me, I just constantly think of what the line is and how much of it I can cross to feed my kids.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Worst thing my company does is supply ESD devices to the MIC. Not exactly sending them armaments but it does kind of help out the MIC.

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[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 121 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Who has the least ethical job at Lockheed?

My money is on the salesman, "this bad boy can kill so many children"

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 89 points 3 days ago (1 children)

By shifting what you sell to “this bad boy can disperse your targeted package across an area x by y in z time frame” instead of “we can turn the entire school to rubble” you help them sleep at night.

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[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 67 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Boy Boy has a video where they sneak into a military weapons convention.

One guy was selling crowd control armor and advertised the dissociation from your actions that armor like that creates, divorcing you from guilt.

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[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 71 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I had a job offer from Cambridge Analytica, they were up front about the work they were doing as well as the pay. Though it was tempting to sell my soul for the pay, even I have my limits.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 47 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)

I had an interview with a “mass email” provider. By the time I left it was clear to both of us that no way in hell.

Is it bad that I consider this much worse than a defense company? Lockheed has some cool tech and help protect my country, at the huge cost of killing so many. Cambridge Analytica indiscriminately attacks people’s privacy, all people, and for profit with no hint at a good purpose

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[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 55 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

Raytheon too. Job offer was $$$weet, but it was related to making missiles even more efficient.

No, I don't think we need to turn brown kids into skeletons yet more efficiently, thanks.

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