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I learned to code. I am good enough to get a job at a Google/Amazon/Facebook. Should I do it? I feel like it would be working for the devil, but I also feel like almost every job is like that. $200k/yr sounds pretty nice.

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the whole tech industry is nothing but devils. you will work to create awful shit that destroys the world, your fellow human, and yourself. You can imagine yourself quitting now, but by the time you realize what you’ve done, the prospect of finding another job will seem too scary. But There Is No Alternative. Labor power is near zero in tech, and the system is structured to make people complicit without giving them access.

So idk, maybe. I probably would.

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If they don’t take the job someone else will and at least if they see something really shady they might be more likely to leak it than another random techbro that will be in there instead.

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