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I don't personally give a **** either way, bills need to he paid and if you don't pay them they call you. They want their money but I believe it's what you do to get them to pay. But if I personally didn't work on the phones and I worked behind the scenes would I be complicit.
I personally look at it in an extreme context as if I was working for the mob as an accountant or some other shady business and I said. "I'm not doing it but all I do is handle the money behind it". I think you would have to say that you are involved and responsible either way. Though your involvement is on the purely business sense it's still involvement.
As I said before, I personally don't care. They made their money how they had to but I don't see it as a separation from being on the phones and handling the money. It's just a moral seperation. It's not exactly the same but without you their job would be futile. Without them saying whatever you have to you wouldn't have money to count.
Whatever your involvement is, you are still involved. Like burying a body of a person you didn't kill. You are guilty, not as guilt but you played your part in whatever it was. I choose to work a **** job because I don't want to do something for the money. I'd rather work at a place I want to work at and that was the same argument we had.
Sure we could have had more income and I am glad she quit her job because it was a cold job but at the same time we got less because of it. That was her ethics and I can't say they were wrong but you can't wash your hands of things if you are doing a small point of a job. Things are built from the ground up. Things work in systems and have small parts from each person to make something happen.
A good part would be the US Legal system.
A man goes to jail, then the jury of 12 makes a decision in this case it's the death penality, the governor I believe signs off, then they get transferred to death row, during the execution the man is strapped dow, he is prepped with alcohol and a needle is placed in his arm, someone else helps out, then someone releases the chemicals, he dies.
All that transpired through so many people that you can say not one person killed him and you didn't do anything or you did everything. During the firing squad they give some men blanks so they can sleep at night. They do this never knowing if they took a life, they can always say to themselves that they didn't do it and had the blanks never knowing what actually happened.
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The question is circular. Volunteering for a job is complicity with it. No question.SneakySniper179 wrote: ↑March 10th, 2021, 7:45 pm Are you complicit in the job you do if you work for someone who doesn't have an ethical job. Say you were a telemarketer or a bill collector but you didn't work on the phones. You did behind the scenes work, is that the same as doing the job yourself. Someone I know worked in bill collection and we just had an argument and I want to see others opinions. She did account management.
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Do you consider employment voluntary?Sculptor1 wrote: ↑March 11th, 2021, 9:19 amThe question is circular. Volunteering for a job is complicity with it. No question.SneakySniper179 wrote: ↑March 10th, 2021, 7:45 pm Are you complicit in the job you do if you work for someone who doesn't have an ethical job. Say you were a telemarketer or a bill collector but you didn't work on the phones. You did behind the scenes work, is that the same as doing the job yourself. Someone I know worked in bill collection and we just had an argument and I want to see others opinions. She did account management.
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YesLuckyR wrote: ↑March 11th, 2021, 12:36 pmDo you consider employment voluntary?Sculptor1 wrote: ↑March 11th, 2021, 9:19 amThe question is circular. Volunteering for a job is complicity with it. No question.SneakySniper179 wrote: ↑March 10th, 2021, 7:45 pm Are you complicit in the job you do if you work for someone who doesn't have an ethical job. Say you were a telemarketer or a bill collector but you didn't work on the phones. You did behind the scenes work, is that the same as doing the job yourself. Someone I know worked in bill collection and we just had an argument and I want to see others opinions. She did account management.
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Cool. Poor folks should move to where you live.Sculptor1 wrote: ↑March 11th, 2021, 3:36 pmYesLuckyR wrote: ↑March 11th, 2021, 12:36 pmDo you consider employment voluntary?Sculptor1 wrote: ↑March 11th, 2021, 9:19 amThe question is circular. Volunteering for a job is complicity with it. No question.SneakySniper179 wrote: ↑March 10th, 2021, 7:45 pm Are you complicit in the job you do if you work for someone who doesn't have an ethical job. Say you were a telemarketer or a bill collector but you didn't work on the phones. You did behind the scenes work, is that the same as doing the job yourself. Someone I know worked in bill collection and we just had an argument and I want to see others opinions. She did account management.
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Tut tut.
People have to accept the consequences of their actions, including the jobs they do. If not we are lost.
Choices are often limted, but there are choices. When you make one you have to take responsibility.
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Steve3007 wrote: ↑March 12th, 2021, 7:44 am I think the fact that working for a living is not entirely voluntary is a key part of the argument against the Libertarians who argue that our labour can be seen as a commodity that we can choose to sell to the highest bidder and that therefore it should be entirely governed by the free market concept, and that there shouldn't be things like a legally enforced minimum wage. The reason I disagree with those Libertarians about that is that labour isn't like that. We're not entirely free to sell it to whom we choose.
Yes, survival in the world we have built is dependent on being able to obtain food, drink, shelter, etc. And for that, in our world, we need an income, a wage. So we must work. It isn't voluntary, if we accept that surviving is not a voluntary thing?
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Well, you are implying that the social safety net in your area makes employment voluntary ie optional. Congrats. That is one of the "choices" you are referring to, right?
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At that rate we can make the world a more ethical place by sitting at home and living off unemployment.LuckyR wrote: ↑March 12th, 2021, 12:45 pmWell, you are implying that the social safety net in your area makes employment voluntary ie optional. Congrats. That is one of the "choices" you are referring to, right?
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Starvation and poverty is also a choice in this respect.LuckyR wrote: ↑March 12th, 2021, 12:45 pmWell, you are implying that the social safety net in your area makes employment voluntary ie optional. Congrats. That is one of the "choices" you are referring to, right?
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So employment isn't voluntary for the (substantial) subset of humans who happen to want to live (not die from starvation), right?Sculptor1 wrote: ↑March 12th, 2021, 1:17 pmStarvation and poverty is also a choice in this respect.LuckyR wrote: ↑March 12th, 2021, 12:45 pmWell, you are implying that the social safety net in your area makes employment voluntary ie optional. Congrats. That is one of the "choices" you are referring to, right?
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Yes, life is also voluntary.LuckyR wrote: ↑March 12th, 2021, 7:56 pmSo employment isn't voluntary for the (substantial) subset of humans who happen to want to live (not die from starvation), right?Sculptor1 wrote: ↑March 12th, 2021, 1:17 pmStarvation and poverty is also a choice in this respect.
Rising up against the system is also a choice. Or accepting the system and allowing yourself to become a cog in the machine that destroys the earth is also a choice.
Most people take the easy way out and pretend that they are not destroying the earth, and fail to take responsibility for playing their part.
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