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Re:Why I Quit Tech and Became a Therapist by shrimp_emoji on Monday March 11, 2019 @02:02PM (#19361177)
And get downvoted when asking how it's ethical to allow a small fraction of people to own unlimited wealth when 25% of Americans don't have clean tap water. :3
Re:Why I Quit Tech and Became a Therapist by rak00n on Monday March 11, 2019 @04:29PM (#19362507)
It's actually 63 million people, roughly 20%.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/08/14/63-million-am...

Re:Why I Quit Tech and Became a Therapist by xyzzyz on Monday March 11, 2019 @04:52PM (#19362688)
As many as 63 million people — nearly a fifth of the United States — from rural central California to the boroughs of New York City, were exposed to potentially unsafe water more than once during the past decade, according to a News21 investigation of 680,000 water quality and monitoring violations from the Environmental Protection Agency.

I'd say that "exposed to potentially unsafe water more than once during the past decade" is pretty far from "20% of Americans don't have clean tap water". If anything, I'd rather say it's impressive that 80% of Americans haven't been exposed to potentially unsafe water more than once in a decade!

Re:Why I Quit Tech and Became a Therapist by thwiv on Monday March 11, 2019 @04:40PM (#19362602)
Where did you get that statistic?
Re:Why I Quit Tech and Became a Therapist by pawelmurias on Monday March 11, 2019 @06:11PM (#19363380)
Discussion about ethics are kind of pointless as different people have different ethical systems.
Re:Why I Quit Tech and Became a Therapist by aabeshou on Monday March 11, 2019 @06:15PM (#19363405)
I dont think unnecessary inequality of food and water are very controversial in humane ethical systems, unless you want to include fascism in your debate