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Re:Info is available about which college majors pay off, stu... by clmay on Friday December 25, 2020 @09:45PM (#25540918)
Yes, what a reductive, bogus article! The assumption that 1) people choose majors based solely on ROI and 2) you cannot enter a field outside the domain or discipline you studied in college are both ridiculous and flawed.

Even if one were to take the lucrative salary at an ad-tech or fin-tech company, and then invest that in "effective altruism", you'd likely never offset the net harm, even if you contributed 100% of your salary.

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Re:Info is available about which college majors pay off, stu... by ytwySXpMbS on Friday December 25, 2020 @09:55PM (#25540968)
> “effective altruism”

It’s funny because it’s really a justification to be selfish, the carbon offset of bad ethics.

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Re:Info is available about which college majors pay off, stu... by clmay on Saturday December 26, 2020 @01:09AM (#25541779)
It's true. What a world we live in.
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Re:Info is available about which college majors pay off, stu... by dmarchand90 on Sunday December 27, 2020 @08:17AM (#25550808)
Do you think you could maybe elaborate why you think the harm by ad optimization is so severe it could never be offset?
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