Comment by siren2026
4 months ago
One of my good friend "Metamate" argument is that "if he doesn't do it, another engineer will do it. Might as well take the money".
But at least they all seem to acknowledge it is a terrible company and they know they are working on something terrible (which is beyond me why you would accept to do that).
Your friend's argument holds no water. None at all. That's not how morality and ethics work.
It doesn't matter, money is money. Without it your pretty much screwed in this world.
Of which Meta is but one source of, among a sea of countless other places to obtain it.
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This is the same argument I hear about too-fast AI rollouts. "If we don't adopt AI, then we will lose to the business that does."
It is so obvious how competition dynamics naturally ends up as a fight to the bottom, and yet so many people are happy enough clocking in to this grind, then trying to forget about it the moment they clock off.
I totally understand this from a survival standpoint - but choosing to work at Meta is likely not "the only job you could get"
> "if he doesn't do it, another engineer will do it. Might as well take the money".
You should introduce your friend to Kant. He’s taken a situational excuse and turned it into a general principle: ‘If someone else would do it anyway, it’s okay for me to do it.’
It's kinda like.. Kant's whole 'thing'.