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Re:Ask HN: Facebook engineers, what keeps you at Facebook? by evgen on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @10:57AM (#25444080)
If you are an engineer at FB you have choices, including the luxury of being able to pick and choose your employer based on their moral and ethical impact on the world. There are no salaried employees at FB who are facing the prospect of taking the job at FB or living on the streets.
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Re:Ask HN: Facebook engineers, what keeps you at Facebook? by rock_hard on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @11:14AM (#25444271)
So what place do you suggest they go work at that’s so ethically pure?

The government? A church...oh wait

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Re:Ask HN: Facebook engineers, what keeps you at Facebook? by evgen on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @02:13PM (#25447054)
Nice attempt to apply the fallacy of the excluded middle. There are lots of places that are less ethically challenging and morally questionable where you can seek gainful employment, in fact the list of places that are a bigger ethical minefield than working at Facebook is vanishingly small.
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Re:Ask HN: Facebook engineers, what keeps you at Facebook? by slut on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @02:44PM (#25447500)
Important caveat: TO YOU
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Re:Ask HN: Facebook engineers, what keeps you at Facebook? by djmobley on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @12:56PM (#25445816)
Note I said: “based on whether they are individually comfortable with every aspect of the organisation’s impact on the world.”

I’m sure Facebook employees are talented and have options for employment, but even they are unlikely to find an employer perfectly aligned with their own moral compass.

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