• kerrigan778@lemmy.world
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      20 hours ago

      That’s actually just something people who sell out their morals say to make themselves feel better. There are absolutely people who don’t have a price. It’s not particularly many and society and those in power are generally able to deal with them in other ways, but there are in fact people who stick to their lines in regards to money.

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      No they don’t.

      I could earn double my low salary, as a software developer, working for say a gambling company, but I’d rather make less and not propagate misery from predatory industries.

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        Bang on. Right there with you.

        I’m working on becoming a game developer but I live in a place chock full of casinos, so looking up “games company” on a map is very disappointing here.

        They can sure pay well sometimes, though. The temptation is real. But I really couldn’t have any sort of passion for even sweeping their floors, much less constructing flashier products that merely serve to more-efficiently short circuit people’s rational thinking into emptying their wallets.

        I think the loud secret is that these “games” thrive on desperation en masse, rather than the comparatively few wealthy and “responsible gamblers.”

        I don’t judge the plenty of good folks who make a living doing it because they need to make a living, but I’d rather struggle more towards something I can believe in that doesn’t compromise my soul or contribute to ruining anybody’s life.

        Now if only high moral standards could pay the bills…

        Oh well, I’ll just keep remembering Matthew 6:26 :)

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      I’d make way more money in defense. I’ve actively avoided it in my career. I spent one summer at LM as an intern. Never went back.

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            Do you think corpos wouldn’t unalive people to increase their profits?

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              That’s not what you said

              You said a company would threaten someone’s family to force them to work for that company. I am not aware of any time in recent history that a company has done this.

              Obviously a large corporation would kill people and they do.

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                Do you need specific threats or will just the threat of death due exposure and or starving death because you can’t pay for food or shelter?

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                  For your statements to make sense, it need to driven by a specific actor not the system as a whole. Ie, yes, a specific threat.

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                    Hmm, I haven’t found any historical examples of specific threats against families. I am a bit surprised, if they are willing to kill workers, why not also threaten their families?

                    Also my statement was corpos in general. So it was a systemic argument.

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                  I don’t know, only you can know your own integrity. Are some people homeless or hungry or both because there are things they won’t do for money though? Yes, of course.

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                    So you would be ok with your family starving because you won’t work for military corporation? If true I admire your dedication, but I couldn’t do go through with it.

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                Looking at how badly I am getting down voted, I am afraid to say anything too controversial. I have probably been reported several times for being correct.

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                  Correct about what? I said I’d never sell my soul. I’d never put myself in a position to be targeted in the first place.

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      Sure, my price is making enough money on my first day there to solve world hunger.