• PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Few days ago there was thread how yuppies are getting on hallucinogens and this cause them to see the grift and stop being yuppies.

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    3 months ago

    This was me. I went into banking because I wanted to make money and naively thought it was a harmless service industry. Cue years later and I just can’t handle going to work and feeling like a bad person everyday who is pushing evil in the world, so I call it quits.

    Haven’t made anywhere near as much money in the decade plus since then, but I also don’t wake up feeling like I’m harming my community every day, so I haven’t regretted my decision for even a minute.

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        3 months ago

        Yeah what I’ve realized over time is that while no ethical consumption (or work) exists under capitalism, specifically unethical consumption and work definitely does.

        Nobody is truly 100% free of the cycle of abuse, but certain people are specifically perpetrators of it. I couldn’t take being one.

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    3 months ago

    The beauty of being a software developer is that if I hate the industry I work in I can just go and work in a different industry, and in time come to hate that just as much.