I had to do one of those dumb satisfaction survey things employers love to send out, and one of the questions was something like, "How much do you agree with $COMPANY's values?"
I gave it a very low score and made a comment that was basically, "our industry is actively destroying the planet" (except in a much more diplomatic tone)
I don't work here because I love your "mission". I work here because I need a job to survive this capitalist hellscape and it was the best option at the moment.
Looking for a job in the US today is kind of like pick a company with at least two of these business model characteristics:
- Relies on cheap energy from burning massive amounts of carbon
- Relies on cheap natural resource extraction
- Relies on exploiting a low-wage workforce
- Relies on asset investment (assumes infinite economic growth)
- Relies on insufficient or non-existent social services (shit healthcare, etc)
- Product is unhealthy but addictive
- Military industrial complex
@malcircuit You’ve basically nailed Capitalism. And if we want to survive , we have to get out of the “expansion mode” and “max profits” as a markers for success, at least until we can make it off the planet. We maybe hardwired to selfishness at the expense of our survival as the dominant species on Earth. At this point it seems there is a greater chance of snuffing ourselves than making it to the stars. #TheGreatFilter #CollectiveSelfDestruction
