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Pseudpocalypse 6 days ago

Right now… it would have been science fiction 10 years ago and not a trillion dollar problem.

Well that’s a sour take. There’s plenty of journalists that are vital to you as a citizen, that helped create the societal contract that we enjoy today. There also happen to be a lot of journalists that shill for political or monetary gain. Journalism (the act of gathering, verifying and distributing information) is extremely vital to a functioning democracy.

In a large portion of tech people like to pretend that they are absolved of responsibility for their societal contributions. “Get that bag” and all that. Work at Anduril as long as it makes that bread, etc.

It makes sense that someone promoting them to re-evaluate the harm they’re causing by participating would elicit negative response

Your options are:

1. Find another job 2. Don’t find another job

You can’t say “where else can I work” like you have no agency over your life. Everyone chooses every day to do what they do that day.

You don’t get to be morally absolved because you’re choosing the easy path and you’re “stuck”. I’m sure there are plenty of places that pay less that would love to have talented remote employees.

You’re writing with the assumption that this is “research” in the first place. This is advertising first, “research” second.