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by mrspeaker 1786 days ago
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!
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I have friends that do this selling crappy financial products while wearing a suit IRL. It’s really hard to look the other way.
Bitcoins?
lol no. Terrible mutual funds and whole life insurance.