"Maybe This is Too Cool" - After years of layoffs and pay/resource freezes, Amazon execs treat themselves to a private Foo Fighters concert worth millions - eviltoast
  • Railing5132@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Just to carry this train of thought forward… What type of device (make/OS) did you compose this post with? Unless you found a way to pass tcp via… I don’t know… clay you dig up in your back yard, it’s pretty hard to avoid ecological damage and morally-questionable employment practices. Participating in damn near any way with any economy makes all of us complicit, and at this point all we’re arguing is to what degree makes each of us uncomfortable.

    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 months ago

      So if we can’t completely remove ourselves from every terrible company in society we shouldn’t even try at all.

      That’s pretty apathetic don’t you think.

      If we can’t stop all murders, why bother prosecuting any aye.

    • Hobo@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      This is such weird logic. The Foo Fighters are millionaires that have a ton of leeway with what shows they do because they don’t really need more money to survive. The guy that frames houses probably isn’t working for a morally great company but that dude starves without the job.

      • Railing5132@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        And yet the Foo fighters and specifically Dave do benefit concerts raising millions and actually cook and feed disadvantaged people by the thousands. They also do (at last I knew) an annual multi-day trolling of the westboro Baptist church compound, which is a great thing imho.

        Now, what is the measure of a man? Is it a sliding scale? Is it just the sums? Sure, that house framer has smaller sins, but does he have a smaller positive impact? Does it matter?

        As I said in my last sentence, we’re all just arguing degrees.