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Dec. 27th, 2018 08:16 am"... creating a group norm that working for unethical businesses is a shitty low-status thing to do would be a net positive for the world." Argumate. https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/181455022670/argumate-as-napoleonchingon-said-creating-the
This was within the context of a discussion on if being an investment banker who is earning-to-give is a net positive, but of course Argumate can't keep it to "high paying jobs taken by people who could definitely get other jobs" no, we gotta make sure we shit on the cashiers along with the CEOs, where would be the fun in it if we can't find people making subsistence wages and can't get other jobs and shit on them for working for a low status company?
Seriously, I did my time at Walmart as a floor associate, cashier, and overnight remod, and before the company went to hell, the worst part of working at Walmart wasn't anything that happened on the job, it was the looks and lectures I would get at parties by people who knew fuck all about the company, just that it was low-status to work for it, and they'd lecture me about the various crimes of Walmart which were always 1. Based on outdated half-truths or completely untrue 2. When true, all comparable companies did the same thing or worse, but it's fine when Target or Home Depot does it, because it's not Eeeevil Walmart.
Fuck this classist hipster bullshit.
This was within the context of a discussion on if being an investment banker who is earning-to-give is a net positive, but of course Argumate can't keep it to "high paying jobs taken by people who could definitely get other jobs" no, we gotta make sure we shit on the cashiers along with the CEOs, where would be the fun in it if we can't find people making subsistence wages and can't get other jobs and shit on them for working for a low status company?
Seriously, I did my time at Walmart as a floor associate, cashier, and overnight remod, and before the company went to hell, the worst part of working at Walmart wasn't anything that happened on the job, it was the looks and lectures I would get at parties by people who knew fuck all about the company, just that it was low-status to work for it, and they'd lecture me about the various crimes of Walmart which were always 1. Based on outdated half-truths or completely untrue 2. When true, all comparable companies did the same thing or worse, but it's fine when Target or Home Depot does it, because it's not Eeeevil Walmart.
Fuck this classist hipster bullshit.
