<story><title>Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments Over Ethical Concerns</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-employees-quitting-whatsapp-instagram-cambridge-analytica-report-2018-4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ThemalSpan</author><text>I find this issue much more pressing in the defense industry. I (thankfully) have the freedom to choose where I work. I will never willingly work on weapon systems. There are those that do though. Engineers who design things to kill other people. What the actual fuck.</text></item><item><author>taurath</author><text>I wonder how many new hires pass up Facebook because of ethical concerns. Whats scary is if even internally people are moving departments because of ethics, that basically filters so that the least ethical people are on the teams with the most ethical concerns.&lt;p&gt;If there&amp;#x27;s a real net effect on their hiring, they&amp;#x27;ll have to increase salaries to lure people in, which will take in even more unethical people (of course, not everyone that works for or wants to work for Facebook is unethical).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eric_b</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s great that you&amp;#x27;ve got a set of principles that you live by, and are able to stick to them.  However, your principles are not everyone&amp;#x27;s principles, and what you consider moral and ethical is not universal.  Grellas had a great comment on working for the military industrial complex a few days ago, that I think is worth a read:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=16759324&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=16759324&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments Over Ethical Concerns</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-employees-quitting-whatsapp-instagram-cambridge-analytica-report-2018-4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ThemalSpan</author><text>I find this issue much more pressing in the defense industry. I (thankfully) have the freedom to choose where I work. I will never willingly work on weapon systems. There are those that do though. Engineers who design things to kill other people. What the actual fuck.</text></item><item><author>taurath</author><text>I wonder how many new hires pass up Facebook because of ethical concerns. Whats scary is if even internally people are moving departments because of ethics, that basically filters so that the least ethical people are on the teams with the most ethical concerns.&lt;p&gt;If there&amp;#x27;s a real net effect on their hiring, they&amp;#x27;ll have to increase salaries to lure people in, which will take in even more unethical people (of course, not everyone that works for or wants to work for Facebook is unethical).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>minhazm</author><text>I grew up in Maryland, which probably has the most defense contractors in the country and I decided in college that I didn&amp;#x27;t want to work in defense for ethical reasons. But there is another side of it, some people genuinely believe that the work they are doing is helping to keep the country safe.</text></comment>