For where you'll be located, you're damn right it's an excellent salary.

And don't forget one of the biggest benefits of all... actually making something useful rather than spending your most important years working on how to get people to click a button or stare longer at their screens to enrich your employer.

> And don't forget one of the biggest benefits of all... actually making something useful rather than spending your most important years working on how to get people to click a button or stare longer at their screens to enrich your employer.

Yeah, the only way to make something useful is to work for the government agency that has a wikipedia article about their human rights violations [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_violations_by_the...

Yes, the only two options are ads and the CIA.

I think a lot of us find the CIA more amoral and destructive than adtech by the way.

> I think a lot of us find the CIA more amoral and destructive than adtech by the way.

I understand that view, and I think history will show just how terribly wrong it is.

The machinations of the CIA don't even begin to compare to the long-term ills that social-media and screen addiction are going to cause all over the world over the next few decades.

I mean, Youtube and its recommendation algorithms alone have via radicalisation set the USA on a path to destruction from within. Throw in Twitter with their mob bubbles and it's beyond redemption.

Well I definitely don't want to get into a "which thing is more bad" argument, but the CIAs crimes are really well documented too.