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When buying stuff, consuming media and picking jobs - where do you draw the line of considering something too evil? Among my peers there's a lot of people who will actively avoid Nestle products, or who don't eat meat. But none of them bats an eye at using Facebook or X. Nobody cares about using products made in China under awful working conditions. I have worked as a freelancer translating greenwashing for a few doubtful megacorporations, others work as lawyers or programmers supporting them.

Especially when it comes to work I find myself between a rock and a hard place. I have tried doing blue collar jobs instead to avoid this. My body tells me very clearly that it's not a full time option for me and I have been running into the same problems of having to consider working for people who either get their money from evil megacorporations or and/or having to do stuff that actively causes some kind of harm, and being forever poor while doing so.

Where do you draw the line? How do you live your life in such a way that it doesn't support evil directly or indirectly while being able to bring food to the table and pay the rent?

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[โ€“] ctrl_alt_esc@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

For me there are a few no gos:

  • working for a weapons manufacturer
  • working for a company that does business with saudi arabia, north korea, russia, and similar authoritarian states/dictatorships
  • working for any FANG company (and obviously any company owned by elmo)
  • working for car manufacturers
  • I try to avoid buying products produced in the US, China, and Israel as much as possible
  • I also try to avoid any company that hosts its stuff on AWS, but that's quite challenging, if you even know in the first place
[โ€“] pescetarian@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yes, we are Russians like that... the embodiment of evil, we cannot be dealt with, because we are the fiends of hell. So we are not people like you. We don't deserve to live at all... So I hope you like it (oh, sorry for contacting you at all, it's forbidden by you) ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ

[โ€“] ctrl_alt_esc@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 day ago

Where did you get that? I said I wouldn't work for a Russian company or one that does business with Russia. I very much hope the Russian people will rise up and rid themselves of that rotten orc at the head of your state and then I'd gladly change my stance. Sadly, the Russian people seem dead set on proving that hope is in vain though.

[โ€“] Taalnazi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Very good, those are great!

[โ€“] Geodad@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I worked for Toyota/Lexus for 2 summers. They weren't a bad place to work for.

[โ€“] ctrl_alt_esc@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sure, but their products are destroying the planet

[โ€“] Geodad@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I live in a rural area of the US. A car is required to do most anything. The nearest city is about an hour drive away.

I have a hybrid that gets 50mpg, so it's not like I'm completely unconscious of environmental concerns. Plus Toyota is has made all of their new Camrys hybrid. By 2027 all of the RAV4 will be.