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Re:The tech sec­tor might be evil by indigochill on Thursday September 21, 2017 @08:54AM (#15302823)
Something I've been thinking lately and may as well ask here: is there a resource for finding tech positions exclusively with socially/morally net positive organizations?

It seems most of the tech job ads I browse through seem to be mostly companies chasing the money rather than focusing on trying to make a net positive social impact.

Re:The tech sec­tor might be evil by dragonwriter on Thursday September 21, 2017 @09:12AM (#15302967)
> Something I've been thinking lately and may as well ask here: is there a resource for finding tech positions exclusively with socially/morally net positive organizations?

Views on morality differ, and there is no universally accepted method of assessing or aggregating utility, so this is not a thing that can be done objectively. Such a thing, were it to exist, would be highly subjective.

> It seems most of the tech job ads I browse through seem to be mostly companies chasing the money rather than focusing on trying to make a net positive social impact.

Welcome to capitalism. That said, there are jobs at public benefit corps, charitable nonprofits, and governments, which in principle are about social benefit by some standard instead of (or in addition to, in the first case) profit.

Re:The tech sec­tor might be evil by thex10 on Thursday September 21, 2017 @10:46AM (#15303929)
Hi, I don't know about job listings, but you might be interested in Benefit Corporations[0] or B Corporations[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation#Difference...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_Corporation_(certification)

Re:The tech sec­tor might be evil by mkrum on Thursday September 21, 2017 @09:05AM (#15302907)
Who gets to decide whats "socially/morally net positive"? Every company thinks they're "socially/morally net positive", which at best happens by accident. If you want to help people, join a non-profit, don't buy into some company's PR. Companies chase money, thats the point of a company.
Re:The tech sec­tor might be evil by quuquuquu on Thursday September 21, 2017 @08:58AM (#15302844)
I would suggest Angel List to at the very least narrow your search, and then manually inspect the companies that come close to what you are looking for :)

You will find that they are few and far between ahah