• luciferofastora@feddit.org
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    2 hours ago

    join open source communities.

    How much do those pay? Enough for rent and groceries? Send your kids to college maybe?

    Choice is a luxury not everyone can afford, and the job market is fucked up in some places, particularly with things like dependency on your employer for healthcare and stability concerns. Yes, the cage may be gilded, but I doubt that it’s empty.

    Attack the system that binds them. Build a socisl safety net that they can trust to catch them and see to their necessities*. Make it a purely binary choice between excess and morality. Whoever continues to sell their soul can burn with the rest of the company.

    *The catch with many unemployment benefit systems is that they only fully apply if you are fired without fault, not if you quit, unless you can prove specific circumstances such as health issues or workplace toxicity, which can be quite a hurdle. Whatever safety we offer has to lower the barrier for those circumstances and permit ethical concerns as justified reason to leave.