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I liked the article until the author started ranting about cis white males.

I think it's stupid to judge someone for working at Oracle or Facebook. It's cliquey and smacks of resentment. I'm also bothered by the moral certainty implied. I don't work for a "problematic employer" but I have no idea if my work is making the world better or worse and I suppose it's hard to tell.



“Problematic” is meaningless. This post didn’t cite any concrete objections to anything Oracle might have ever done. The worst I’ve heard is they successfully sell to senior VPs over the recommendations of the tech staff, and they sue over severe license terms those VPs probably should have redlined.


"Problematic" is a word typically used when someone wants to get attention by fabricating non-existant greivences they aren't even involved with.

They cast the world as a worse place that it actually is, and in the process make everybody a reading their rant just a little less happy and content. But the virtue signaller gets that sweet, sweet attention they crave without actually having to produce or earn anything.


I’m annoyed by the hypocrisy of taking a giant paycheck and then claiming the moral high ground. You want the moral high ground, go work for unicef not a for profit tech company that happens not to be Facebook.


Eh, stick around humanitarian spaces for more than a few seconds and you'll run into moral conflicts from working with/around the international NGOs as well.

There's no moral high ground to be had when you are working for the proverbial elephant in a space. You have to decide if your individual impact creates more good than whatever harm your contribution enables whenever the elephant thoughtlessly steps on someone (or we could try to build a future where no group has enough power to cause that kind of harm, but that's a different subject).


NGOs may not be so great but at least going to work for one shows willingness to sacrifice. We have a lot of people on the internet very willing to condemn others but not in anyway sacrificing any of their own comfort over their apparently stringent moral beliefs on every imaginable subject.


Working for, and even owning, a for-profit is not inherently bad.

Non-profits are not inherently good, either.


It’s not inherently bad, no. But the purpose of the collective effort is right there in the name—for profit.

Don’t pretend you are trying to save the world when you just want a good living. It’s fine to just want a good living!


There’s a pretty wide spectrum between saving the world and working for Oracle.


Oracle’s salespeople are very aggressive. Oracle doesn’t assassinate people.




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