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What lessons can you take from the jerks without becoming a jerk? A common trend through the research was that jerks aren’t afraid to push a little. They self-promote. They negotiate. They make themselves visible.
Barking Up the Wrong Tree
Eric Barker
How EA depoliticises morally odious jobs
Summary:
In Silicon Valley and Wall Street, depending where you look, you'll find relatively liberal workforces that rival the liberal attitudes of academia, media, entertainment. But they're still some of the most morally odious places to work. They thrive precisely when they're taking shit out of everyone else's mouths. And it is really funny that like an ethicist is saying these are morally neutral jobs. We're not. Quantitative hedge fund trading, management consulting, technology startup. These are some of themost morally odious jobs that you can tell.
Transcript:
Speaker 1
By the time he wrote his 2015 book, Doing Good Better, he had already backpedaled on the any high paying job possible and give what you can and had instead started to advise and encourage People to quote, take what it sees as morally neutral or positive jobs, quantitative hedge fund trading, management consulting, technology startup. So 80,000 hours started, these are morally neutral or positive jobs. Let me say that list again. We're not. Quantitative hedge fund trading, management consulting, technology startup. So in other words, take jobs on Wall Street, take jobs at McKinsey, take jobs in Silicon Valley.
Speaker 2
Honestly, and Silicon Valley.
Speaker 1
Because these are morally neutral at best morally positive.
Speaker 2
Which is... And it is really funny that like an ethicist is saying these are morally neutral jobs. These are some of the most morally odious jobs that you can tell. Even if the field and as you know, maybe I don't know if we'll get the time to talk to it, but there are a lot of surveys of people's workforces, workforces in these places, right? And in Silicon Valley and Wall Street, depending where you look, you'll find relatively liberal workforces that rival the liberal attitudes of academia, media, entertainment. They're still some of the most morally odious places to work. They thrive precisely when they're taking shit out of everyone else's mouths. Who impose externalities that threaten the entire economy of this country, of the world, of other countries, which encourage and help firms figure out how to evade the law, break the Law, poison air, poison water, destroy livelihoods.
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This Machine Kills
Relating stories alone will not legitimize such claims; political communication also requires general normative arguments. Stories often serve as the only means, however, for people in one social segment to gain some understanding of experiences, needs, projects, problems, and pleasures of people in the society differently situated from themselves, to the description of which general normative principles must be applied to do justice.
Inclusion and Democracy
Iris Marion Young
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