bendoernberg

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by bendoernberg 6y ago
How much less would you make working at another, less evil company?
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by bendoernberg 6y ago
I've been very influenced by Isabel Wilkerson's new book to look at America as having a racial caste system that's 400 years old. The entire economic and political history and present of the United States is governed by this
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by bendoernberg 7y ago
Why do you hang out with people who don't care about ethics?
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by bendoernberg 8y ago
Among many other points, more than half the laws you mention are terrible. We shouldn't be banning people in need from taking food or shelter when there's an extreme excess of both, or loving who they want.
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by bendoernberg 8y ago
Markets and liberalism have been failing so drastically for decades that fascism is rising across the globe. What evidence do you see that this is going to change in time to prevent unimaginable catastrophe? We all need to sprint lefter and
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by bendoernberg 8y ago
You're right, when someone who isn't Jewish says "the Jews" it sounds weird and is followed by "control the banks" often enough that it sets me on edge.
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by bendoernberg 8y ago
> any foreigner can move to the US to contribute to and enjoy the benefits of being #1 This is not true. There's, at a minimum, hundreds of millions of people who'd like to move here and can't.
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by bendoernberg 8y ago
From the Israeli newspaper Haaretz: 'Revealed: Israel's Cyber-spy Industry Helps World Dictators Hunt Dissidents and Gays' "Within a few years, the Israeli espionage industry has become the spearhead of the global commer
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by bendoernberg 8y ago
The answer is that being a human with moral and ethical obligations to the rest of humanity should take precedence over being a corporate leader. If you don't sell censorship and weapons tech or cut backroom deals to silence victims of
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by bendoernberg 8y ago
Uhhh why would you be ok with someone who chooses to use their labor to work for a racist/kitten murdering website because it’s a “technical challenge”? I’m sure keeping the Daily Stormer up and running is difficult, but anyone who hel
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by bendoernberg 8y ago
Sounds like the "Assassination Market" theory of decentralizing power from the 1990s.
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by bendoernberg 8y ago
I don't think the poster was just talking about money, although there may also be a time-value factor for other things (health, neural plasticity, etc).
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by bendoernberg 8y ago
Their public transit and food kitchen access is more important than your wife being able to walk to the supermarket without getting hollered at.
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by bendoernberg 8y ago
What about the last 15 years leads you to believe that we can rely on startup founders to care about safety and ethics?
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by bendoernberg 8y ago
There is no loyalty when dealing with profit.
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by bendoernberg 8y ago
If "I would screw over my entire society in exchange for performance fees" isn't the definition of immoral, what is? Why would you do that?
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by bendoernberg 8y ago
What's the case for "billion-dollar companies using neuroscience to manipulate the behavior of individuals is a moral and societal good"? Neuromarketing seems pretty straightforwardly evil to me...
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by bendoernberg 9y ago
Are you sure that most people would interpret "savings account" to include checking accounts, gold bars stashed under their bed, Schwab accounts, etc? I'm not.
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by bendoernberg 9y ago
"They 'trust me.' Dumb fucks" - Mark Zuckerberg, 2004. Facebook is not going to fix the problems they're leveraging to make billions of dollars.
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by bendoernberg 9y ago
Also see "Bitcoin's lien problem": > "Indeed, given the high volume of fraud and default in the bitcoin network, chances are most bitcoins have competing claims over them by now. Put another way, there are probably mo
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by bendoernberg 9y ago
It is possible to say no to the incentives of doing evil work; I would describe those who say no as the people with "a strong sense of personal values and ethics". This phrase has no meaning if you apply it to people who routine
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by bendoernberg 9y ago
Looks like you're shadowbanned Goldenkey
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by bendoernberg 9y ago
How does this explain the Republican party's continued support for healthcare bills with sub-25% approval ratings? Also I don't see Barney Frank, Signature Bank board member and author of a piece titled "Yes, I Took Bank Mone
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by bendoernberg 9y ago
Frame Alignment theory is the sociological term for what you're describing. After Occupy there were millions of people who were more prepared for a message about the corruption of elites and the need for ordinary people to reclaim demo
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by bendoernberg 10y ago
People who help BP drill for oil when they could be making a perfectly fine living doing something else are contributing to, potentially, the end of human life on this planet. If that is not an immoral act, what is?
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by bendoernberg 10y ago
You're right that leaving a job can affect other people ...but so does staying! By continuing to work there, Uber employees are facilitating a sexist environment, the exploitation of the drivers who (if things go according to plan) wi
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by bendoernberg 10y ago
I can't speak to whether it's self-righteous or not, but collective action is not possible if people can only ask others to do what they have also done. Everyone has different abilities and positions in society that enable them to
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by bendoernberg 10y ago
I think an honest reading of my comment would reveal that I was providing a range of actions that people can engage in that require some level of sacrifice in service of a collective goal. My point was that on this spectrum, switching six-f
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by bendoernberg 10y ago
Well, Uber has been encouraging drivers to take out essentially subprime leases on cars through Uber, systematically misleading them about their earning potential (for which they settled with the FTC), and repeatedly changing the payment an
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by bendoernberg 10y ago
First off, you're absolutely right that I don't know the poster's specific situation, and I should have done a much better job addressing the general case and not the specific person whose circumstances I know nothing about.

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