Re:The tech sector might be evil
by dragonwriter on Thursday September 21, 2017 @09:12AM
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> 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.
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.