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Are there any occupations you uniquely oppose the existence of? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I did retirement home training and used to think it was a sweet job. Then I got in the business and underestimated how demoralizing it was as they give you the easy elders in training while the others make you, or at least me, really think of the fact the job just amounts to an unkarmic freebie.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Lobbyists

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, lobbyists work not only for evil corpos, but also for NGOs and movements... Lobbyism is the process to sway politics to a direction through interpersonal meetings, and is necessarily in a democracy.

However, one thing that would benefit the US is transparency around lobbyists; who they are, how they are funded, their agenda etc. The EU has a database on registered lobbyists and the transparency helps with parts of the problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Lobbying is a good concept corrupted by greed, as are many things in the US.

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

This needs higher up. Lobbyists are a cancer