[vjerancrnjak]

Everything is outside of your control. Including the product of your work.

I worked for a company that has a very eco-friendly product yet eventually it was used by industries one might not find ethical.

Simplest example is engineering of factory farms and industrial slaughterhouses. Are these engineers evil? Is the automation work that was focused on machine production to blame? Why didn’t the engineers predict that their work will be transformed into an industrial slaughterhouse? Just look at what happened with gas chambers.

The chain of influence is everywhere. You have to accept that eventually your work results are outside of your control even if you have an illusion of choice (self-employment, owning your own company, picking projects or clients).

Once you truly accept that, from that place dilemma no longer exists.