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xyzzy21 | karma 1100 | avg karma 1.27 · 2021-08-01 10:28:52

I thought selling your soul was done by signing on to work at Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

dkersten | karma 11132 | avg karma 2.09 · 2021-08-01 10:36:30

That’s just the simplest and most common method.

unmole | karma 6929 | avg karma 2.58 · 2021-08-01 10:39:22

To be fair, selling your soul definitely pays better than working a job where it's slowly crushed everyday.

dylan604 | karma 28008 | avg karma 1.81 · 2021-08-01 10:55:27

I worked with someone that went on vacation, and never returned. Instead, he called in and said that the job was stealing his soul and would not be returning. Sadly, we all understood 100%

3gg | karma 457 | avg karma 3.17 · 2021-08-01 11:01:23

I guess this must be the premise of capitalism.

the_only_law | karma 5099 | avg karma 1.42 · 2021-08-01 11:24:04

Startup for a quick online soul market?

tobmlt | karma 678 | avg karma 2.28 · 2021-08-01 11:06:38

If you are grinding leetcode, you are already in hell.

praptak | karma 15016 | avg karma 4.7 · 2021-08-01 11:42:30

In the modern economy you are always a small, finite number of transactions from someone using slave labour, bombing civilians or using torture.

At some of the big tech corps this number is 1 though - murderous regimes do use these companies directly.

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mgh2 | karma 8535 | avg karma 2.85 · 2021-08-01 12:14:12

You can be a spy instead, and try to change it from the inside (however impossible that seems). That is the moral justification.

dragonwriter | karma 118260 | avg karma 2.17 · 2021-08-01 12:27:09

That is just a rental, not a sale.