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  • PartyAt15thAndSummit@lemmy.ziptoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•How do you work at a job where you fundamentally disagree with the company's ethics?
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    19 days ago

    Yeah, a lot of people in this thread are delusional. Any big company is up to shady shit, you only need to dig deep enough to find it.
    In my last job, I was stonewalled hard when I cautiously inquired why a huge 1st world company, selling seemingly innocuous products, had so much “value creation” done in 3rd world countries. If you live anywhere in the world, including Antarctica, you probably have some stuff of said company in your home right now.
    As it turned out, they were taking advantage of the lack of regulation and/or enforcement in these countries, big time. The worst thing to me were all these smokescreens, the schmoozing with politicians and the goody two-shoes image they created to hide all of this.

  • PartyAt15thAndSummit@lemmy.ziptoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Bots everywhere or am I losing it?
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    4 months ago

    Like that 1969 Ray Bradbury story, “Night Call, Collect”, where a man stranded on Mars spends 60 years setting up pre-recorded messages for himself that one day spring into action and eventually start talking to each other.

    Spoiler

    A relay snapped somewhere. The two phone voices were connected, one to the other.
    “Hello, Barton?”
    “Yes, Barton?”
    “Aged twenty-four.”
    “I’m twenty-six. We’re both young. What’s happened?”
    “I don’t know. Listen.”
    The silent room. The old man did not stir on the floor. The wind blew in the broken window. The air was cool.
    “Congratulate me, Barton, this is my twenty-sixth birthday!”
    “Congratulations!”
    The voices sang together, about birthdays, and the singing blew out the window, faintly, faintly, into the dead city.