[q3k]

> We hire people with strong stomachs and a strong sense of duty.

It's difficult to have a strong sense of duty for the megacorp that doesn't even bother to employ you directly, but pays another megacorp which then pays you peanuts. When you don't even get to have the context of what you're doing, don't get to follow up on whether what you did was meaningful, whether the perp was caught and tried, whether the child was saved.

It's difficult to have a strong stomach if you don't see this as an occiasional element of your generally tame and meaningful work, but see hours upon hours, days upon days of some of the worst shit that the human race is capable of.

[stephenhuey]

Good point. If someone joins the Marines, they are not paid much but I assume they have a sense of pride in being a Marine. Contractors working for the military are not officially employed and often they're put to work on projects we do not want our military employees doing, but they do it for much higher pay. Law enforcement officials generally have a similar level of pride in their service and are recognized with a badge, uniform, respect, etc. If the contractors that Facebook is putting to work on content moderation don't really get to be part of the Facebook employee roster but are having to do difficult work on par with what many law enforcement personnel have to handle, should they perhaps be compensated far more than Facebook employees just like how a black ops contractor is paid far more than a uniformed Marine? If that's too expensive for Facebook, then perhaps Facebook is not running a profitable business and we should just let it fail.

[kodah]

> If someone joins the Marines, they are not paid much but I assume they have a sense of pride in being a Marine. Contractors working for the military are not officially employed and often they're put to work on projects we do not want our military employees doing, but they do it for much higher pay.

I know this isn't what you're doing, but this sentiment does come awful close to, "they know what they signed up for" logic. Most Marines know before they sign up that they are signing up for a high risk job, mentally and physically. In bootcamp you go through fairly extreme (to an every day person) conditioning and you are regularly conditioned to stress throughout your tenure. It takes an insane amount of work to make a person disregard concern for their own safety and run towards the sound of gun fire. Even then, this conditioning is problematic when people get out, due to numerous reasons, which is why (imo) you see so much disarray in veteran communities. Conditioning people to be to handle extraordinary circumstances is necessary, imo, but you have to find a way to decondition them.