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[–] [email protected] 160 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Probably what businesses really want is unethical people who are competent at lying about it, and the professor was giving anon practical career advice if not actually ethical advice.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (3 children)

They want those people as CEO's, not as workers.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

They still don't want an honest 95%+ ethical person in any role because it might conflict with the corporation's desire to have workers rationalize that the needs of the corporation are more important than ethics, ie not wanting to hire potential whistleblowers.

They want ethical but only to the point that they're willing to be unethical for the corporation, but not to the point that they'd ever be unethical towards the corporation. Basically sketchy 'ride or die' logic

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