As someone who is currently still in education for their degree looking at the current (and likely future) economic and societal outlook, it seems like employment in fields that cause/perpetuate negative issues in the world (Big Tech/Military-Industrial Complex, industries contributing to climate change, predatory sales/financial firms) continue to maintain strong employment availability and salaries as time goes on.
However, fields that have a neutral or beneficial impact on society and the world (Medical care, Food service, public infrastructure, humanitarian aid work, environmental research), either don’t have enough available positions that people are able to transition into, have worsening working conditions due to poor management or limited resources, or just don’t pay a living wage to most who work there.
I’ve read about the broken window fallacy, and I understand how focusing on personal gain without considering the impacts on the wider picture doesn’t make for a better world. But can someone feel justified contributing to the “broken windows” of the world knowing that they weren’t presented functional alternative pathways, and try to contribute towards the solution in other ways?
Whatever you do, you’re going to be a part of the system.
Even if you become a civil service firefighter you’re going to be driving a gas vehicle and working to help preserve capitalism.
Get the best paying job you can, and protect your family first.
Unless you want to become a full time revolutionary.
There’s a massive difference between a civil servant using a gas vehicle, and a software developer for Palantir. There are degrees to this.
I’m pointing out that nobody has a perfect job under capitalism.
Would you say that the people who clean the offices at Palantir are guiltier that the folks who clean schools?
OP probably isn’t going to get offered something right on the firing line [i.e writing speeches for Ted Cruz]
Yes, no question
You’re using a satellite technology pioneered by Nazis and an internet that depends on slave labor.
But yes, you have the right to point the finger at other people.
Lol what a weak attempt at a rebuttal. I feel like you didn’t even grasp the point.
Had I been alive in the 1940s, guess what? I would be saying the same shit about people doing administrative work for Nazis.
Had I been alive in the 1850s, I would be saying the same shit about people doing administrative work for slavers.
But sure, go with the “you criticize society, yet exist in society. Curious!” argument
you realize lots of civil servants, are corrupt, right? and some are in unions that engage in extortionary tactics, like the police.
there is nothing inherently morally superior about one’s profession. there are shitty people in every profession.
like maybe you think doctors and nurses are noble, cool. there are doctors and nurses that abuse and murder their patients. there are teachers that abuse their students, etc.