• TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world
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    Who has the least ethical job at Lockheed?

    My money is on the salesman, “this bad boy can kill so many children”

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      By shifting what you sell to “this bad boy can disperse your targeted package across an area x by y in z time frame” instead of “we can turn the entire school to rubble” you help them sleep at night.

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        Consider for instance some comfortable English professor defending Russian totalitarianism. He cannot say outright, ‘I believe in killing off your opponents when you can get good results by doing so’. Probably, therefore, he will say something like this:

        ‘While freely conceding that the Soviet regime exhibits certain features which the humanitarian may be inclined to deplore, we must, I think, agree that a certain curtailment of the right to political opposition is an unavoidable concomitant of transitional periods, and that the rigors which the Russian people have been called upon to undergo have been amply justified in the sphere of concrete achievement.’

        • George Orwell
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      CEO because he likely gets paid mostly in shares, and it’s really shareholders (not employees) who have the most choice in the matter.

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    Raytheon too. Job offer was $$$weet, but it was related to making missiles even more efficient.

    No, I don’t think we need to turn brown kids into skeletons yet more efficiently, thanks.

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    Dan the company man felt loyalty to the corp After 16 years of service and a family to support He actually started to believe the weaponry and chemicals were for national defence 'Cause Danny had a mortgage and a boss to answer to The guilty don’t feel guilty, they learn not to.

    (The Irrationality of Rationality by NOFX).

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    Selling out being an option for people just means the system is working as intended. People are so poor they are willing to compromise their morals to keep food on the table

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    Fuck the military complex of this species. I’m gonna build my own aerospace company, mine the asteroid belt, and build my own human habitat. With black jack… And hookers… And universal healthcare…

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    brah. You will merely break many peoples bodies with explosives in the name of capitalism, corruption and colonization.

    At my job I corrupt entire countries full of children, starting at an early age. I run user bucket targetting experiments on them to get them to spend more and steer them to befriend “friends” I select for them to optimize some pennies for our network edge performance. The measurements and manipulation of their vulnerabilities never stops. I take high resolution scans of their faces that we can use for the rest of their life to identify them anywhere–all so they can change their face to be an animated fox face, or stuff like that. I hope authoritarians never get ahold of this info because that could be bad for these consumers/kids, but hopes and prayers are not exactly my job. We never delete their info because parents click through the terms of service to shut their kids up. We say we educate kids to learn to program but inside the company that concept is spoken of mockingly.

    I measure and steer their temperament and engagement with new games that are open to their worst impulses, and keep them on the treadmill. I transcribe and save literally every single word they utter. I analyze those spoken words for sentiment, and to build an ongoing model of which bucket they belong in to maximize their spending. The loaner? the helper? the team player? authority truster? authority abuser? rule driven, rule antidriven? I have loot, friends, new games, and contrived self serving “bugs” for all of them to find and think they are exploiting the games without my knowing.

    I teach them to get addicted to loot boxes and I arbitrage endorphin hits between their peers and from the game. I give them their entire range of their lifes highs and lows. The best and worst times of their short lives are things I hand out. The later at night it is, or the longer their session, the more loot I give them to keep them playing. Like an IV drip of drug where sometimes you need to squeeze the bag to push more through to feel that hit strongly even when exhausted, and get them to defy their parents’ calls for them to sleep.

    You think darkness is your issue. But you merely adopted the dark for a paycheck; I was born into it right out of school, moulded by it. I didn’t see socially useful internet services till I was an old man, by then it was nothing to me but a different way to drive engagement and raise the value on my rsus. My legacy will be a path of human wreckage and misery, same as yours only much bigger.

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    Before reading the text I was expecting a Saddam joke. After reading seems even more applicable.

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    If you can get a job for LM, you can get a job somewhere else. If a bit more money persuades you to help build child pulverizing machines, you never had any ethics to begin with.

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        Boing makes the Apache, B52 which have killed a hell of a lot of people. Cough enola gays B29 cough.

        Boeing definitely has killed far more than Lockheed Martin aircraft on purpose