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by s73v3r 3836 days ago
Easy to say now. Much harder to follow through when you're relying on your paycheck to pay your rent or buy you food.
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One should always ensure their financial situation does not preclude one from exercising their ethics.
Should, but unfortunately one can't always forsee things that come up. If your spouse comes down with cancer, for instance, and you're reliant upon company insurance to pay for treatment, one might be tempted to put their spouse's treatment ahead of those ethics.
It's hard to not parse your response as putting profits before people.
I'm not even really talking about profits, though. Just the basic amount needed to get by.