what is the furthest you’d go immorally for a fresh salary? Hell I’d work for Palantir for a nice $250k or be a manager at Evil Corporation Inc if I got a crisp $300k.
or are you a goody two shoes who will stand by your principles even if it means pain!
Anyone that would sell out for something as petty as money is, in my opinion, human garbage.
I’m not gonna judge what someone else might stoop to to feed their kids.
I’m lucky enough to be in a position where I can be picky - not everyone gets to say that
What if its a lot of money that you could use for good? Or if the alternative is being unemployed, losing your house and family.
False choice allows to justify anything.
You can also find a job that pays less but allows you to live with yourself in the values you’ve chosen.
It would be illegal to pay someone less than minimum wage. Some people really don’t have much choice for employment and just have to take what they can get.
Levels of evil vary of course. If the choice was work for the IDF for £250k or doctors without borders for £25k that is a much easier ethical choice to take than choosing between Amazon or unemployed.
Where the hell your family going? They arnt family because youre broke? There are other jobs? There are family rooms in homless shelters? Grab a tent?
Must be nice to live a life where you have never been pushed by everyone close to you to take literally any job no matter what and made to feel like a failure for not finding one.
I dont keep people like that close to me. Luck? Not so much, strong boundaries, yeah.
Can’t move out without money, also got the media and government employees making you feel worthless for being unemployed.
Well thats on you for letting “media and government” opinions have effect. Those influences shouldnt hold value in your own opinion of yourself.
I got booted out on my own at 17, state put me in a shelter until I turned 18. Was homeless multiple times until I found a carrer I thought ethical. Like I said, poverty doesnt scare me. Working for someone who is the boot on folks neck do. Im also nerodivergent, and literally cant stand to stay in a place, living or working, that infringes on mine or others freedoms. I go without, a lot. Found the most community I’ll ever probably expierence, in the lowest of places. I like the low places. Suits and tie types scare me.
State assistance types who look down on folks should rot in their chairs. Again, their opinion doesnt change facts. If you qualify, you qualify, miss nancy on her high horse can eat a dick.
I’ve walked miles in car centric infanstructure, with groceries I had to scrape up money to afford strapped to my back in 100degree heat, all the while cursing the suburban moms in their cars with their AC thinking, “Im stronger than youll ever be”.
Ones own will is a tool to be wielded.
When you have nothing, you have a different type of freedom.
It’s okay by me to accept help where you can, give back where you can, and the people who abuse power are so, so very small (not in numbers but in personhood)
say this again after you’ve gone a few years broke
Been broke my whole life, I dont fear poverty. Sell your soul for money, youre a shit human.
I’ve been broke, even homeless, and I agree with @Bizzle@lemmy.world. Of course, that’s part of how I ended up that way.
You’re right that people often do desperate things when impoverished, but it’s not like it absolves them of any morality.