Post 1999065 by ellied@sleeping.town
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 (DIR) Post #1999065 by ellied@sleeping.town
       2018-12-15T03:06:34Z
       
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       My dear mother seems not to have really got the message when I said "I am not working for a big tech company". Her reaction appears to be something along the lines of "that's nice, dear, but you need to make money and support yourself, and that comes before your ideology or whatever".Listen:No it fucking doesn't.I don't want to avoid big tech companies because it's fun, or convenient, or wins me points with some cult, or whatever she thinks. I avoid them because I think they're an existential threat to civilization, and I do not want to assist them in what they are doing. That's it. I'm just not willing to conscript myself in the name of money to an entity that I would rather die fighting. There has to be a better way.
       
 (DIR) Post #1999066 by ellied@sleeping.town
       2018-12-15T03:09:29Z
       
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       Places my mom has suggested I apply:- Amazon- Google- Microsoft- Bank of America- Whole Foods, again- the fucking FBI- fucking Homeland Securitylike wow, it's like you shook up a box of all the worst entities you could find for this one
       
 (DIR) Post #1999067 by ellied@sleeping.town
       2018-12-15T03:17:33Z
       
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       I'm not going to work for a big corporation or insidious government agency in any capacity. I'm just not going to fucking do it. If we ever want anything to get better in this world, people like me have to stop actively working to make it worse. At this stage, I feel like going off to work some job at Amazon or Google or Microsoft or Bloatass Bank or whatever the fuck, no matter what the job actually is, would be an act of surrender to late capitalism, and I haven't even started fighting yet.
       
 (DIR) Post #1999069 by ellied@sleeping.town
       2018-12-15T03:19:13Z
       
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       And yes, even if the job were like "tech ethicist" or "ethics moderator" or whatever the fuck. There's no changing a capitalist death machine from the inside, no matter how much anyone says you can.