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Comment by weregiraffe

21 hours ago

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and when did you stop beating your wife?

> is the pay good enough to justify the atrocities you help to perpetrate?

C'mon, not every ad jockey is flogging fossil fuels, and even some that do repent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcrekESgFQI

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Carey_(novelist)

  • Given that the parent comment literally stated that they worked in adtech, this is not "begging the question" in the way that you're implying.

    You might disagree with the assertion that adtech is immoral, but that's a difference of opinion, not evidence of a logical fallacy.

  • Oh, I consider ads-driven economy an atrocity.

    • Of possible interest, Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition is themed abut mass media intrusion into private mind spaces, Carey's Bliss about an ad exec whose heart stops, re-awakening convinced he is in hell (but merely life with the scales fallen from his eyes).

      Such things are still not reason to dis other HN commentators - there's always reddit for that.

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