[HN Gopher] How to Escape from Immoral Mazes
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How to Escape from Immoral Mazes
Author : apsec112
Score : 55 points
Date : 2020-02-06 19:23 UTC (1 days ago)
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| FZ1 wrote:
| > Young people starting out in the labor market often have The
| Fear that they will never find a job or never find a good job or
| another good job.
|
| Young people fear it. Older people know it.
|
| > Quit.
|
| Not everyone is a 20-something silicon valley kid with companies
| falling all over themselves to throw money at them.
|
| Hiring is effectively broken these days - especially in the
| software world.
|
| If you're not from a top-flight university, maybe a little older,
| or in any other way less flashy/attractive in the job market, it
| can take months or sometimes years to get decent job interviews.
|
| You can't just walk away from a decent income because idealism.
| knzhou wrote:
| > What do you do if you find yourself inside a maze?
|
| > Quit. Seriously. Go do something else. Ideally, do it today.
|
| That's it, right there. The whole article could have been
| replaced with just that.
|
| I've heard people express the opinion that they have absolutely
| "no choice" but to work at McKinsey, or some random hedge fund. I
| don't understand how anybody can reasonably come to that
| conclusion. The worst case for people like this is making only
| _medium_ six figures.
| perl4ever wrote:
| At some point I decided that there's a fundamental difference
| between working for the government vs. private industry. I'm
| happy doing much the same thing for the government that I was
| unhappy doing in private industry or for a government
| contractor, because it no longer makes sense to give up. To a
| lot of people, the maze may look the same, but in one case,
| it's always worth trying to fix, and in the other the whole
| thing is dispensable.
|
| The maze aspect of a situation, or the immorality aren't really
| the important things! The thing that matters is whether you
| have a _purpose_ in participating, to make _anything better_.
| When a private company is going down the tubes, there 's an
| inherent non-linear and self-fulfilling type of behavior where
| people give up when they think others are giving up. It makes a
| large difference in what can be achieved when giving up is not
| an option for a significant number of people.
| jandrese wrote:
| That's practically poverty level after you factor in the
| Manhattan apartment rent, yacht, private schooling, etc...
| seisvelas wrote:
| One way to avoid poverty in that case would be to not buy a
| yacht, for example. Any amount of money is nearly poverty
| level if you spend it all on luxuries.
|
| Edit: I am dumb and completely missed the joke. Poe's law in
| action!
| uoaei wrote:
| That's the joke
| RobRivera wrote:
| HA! I appreciate your perspective and comment. I'm nearly 3
| years into wall street and, while on the lower end of the
| payscale, I KNOW that if I pursue the more ambitious high
| six, low seven figure lifestyle, I will have to 'play the
| game'.
|
| People who claim they have no choice but to play the game
| have already decided they will tolerate it as much as
| possible.
| lazyasciiart wrote:
| You should have read the rest of the article. It actually talks
| about why people say that and how they can work up to quitting.
| kazinator wrote:
| > _How to Escape from Immoral Mazes_
|
| Keep to the Right at all times?
|
| Or else Left works, too.
|
| Just don't vacillate.
|
| :)
| rantwasp wrote:
| unless... you run into a moral loop
| gliese1337 wrote:
| Well, then you weren't in a maze to begin with. Escaping
| immoral labyrinths is a whole other problem!
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