[Cybotron5000]

This is so messed up. If you’re reading this and are in this ‘business’, or associated with it/supporting it, please, for the sake of yourself, your families, humanity and the planet we live on, get out if you have any choice! It’s been bad enough with state actors, lobbyists etc etc. for years anyhow - don’t make it worse for the sake of a quick buck!

[mrspeaker]

People are very good at justifying what they are doing if their livelihood is at stake. I know many programmers - nice people - working as the digital equivalent of seal-clubbers... but there's good money to be made clubbing seals, and if they don't do it somebody else will, and the seals have a choice not be clubbed, and they need the experience, and they only indirectly club the seals, and remember that time when that "good" guy did a bad thing for seals, and also there's WAY worse industries, and there's this one study that suggests clubbing seals is actually good for society... etc etc!

[dd36]

I have friends that do this selling crappy financial products while wearing a suit IRL. It’s really hard to look the other way.

[bamboo2]

Bitcoins?

[dd36]

lol no. Terrible mutual funds and whole life insurance.

[throwaway316943]

I don’t know how to break this to you… but you’re about 80 years late.

[solarengineer]

What was accepted as the norm earlier and even now, needn't necessarily continue. We could actually beseech people to cease contributing to overall harm. We've seen this in so many social improvements over the past decades.

[rbanffy]

Also, related: The YouTubers who blew the whistle on an anti-vax plot https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27951293

[eggsmediumrare]

There are a lot of industries like this and a lot of people on HN who need to reevaluate their career choices.

[ramoz]

its not that simple. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27700339#:~:text=24%20d...