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  • NONE@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Can someone who works in an industry or for an employer with clear negative impacts on society/the world maintain a clear concience?
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    3 months ago

    This is where I believe Karl Marx’s concept of alienation becomes more of a blessing than anything else. Marx argued, broadly speaking, that under capitalism, workers are doomed to feel disconnected (alienated) from the work they do. I think this disconnection works wonders in the kinds of jobs where what you do has negative consequences. Employees can pull a Nuremberg: “I’m just following orders,” and that way, even though they’re technically helping to create more harm in the world, from their point of view, they were just doing their job. Surviving, like all of us.

    It is a clear conscience achieved through self-emptying.

    (There’s also the case of people who honestly enjoy causing harm in the world, but that’s a separate issue.)