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by umadon 2559 days ago
"I appreciate your point of view, FWIW I believe that I'm doing net positive work for the world."

Well, you're wrong. You believe this because you're getting paid a lot of money to.

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A bit of cyberstalking suggests that the commenter here has a background in crypto stuff, so i suspect that the belief predates the being paid a lot of money.

A lot of people genuinely believe that crypto bobbins is inherently positive, and might well believe that crypto bobbins with a big serious alliance backing it is more likely to succeed, and so even more positive.

And, if projects like this are going to happen, i would certianly rather that they had optimistic true believers involved!

The optimistic true believers are being exploited by dishonest business folks above them in the org chart.

They have flexible morals, they think honesty===naivety and they will tell the optimistic believer whatever he/she needs to hear in order to do what they want.

This is just another step towards corporate dystopia. How big of a step remains to be seen.