It's a reasonable stance until the point where most of society is ran by for-profit companies. Then that mindset actively makes the world worse.
replyYour bosses might not actually care about the work you do, but your users and customers sure will.
Your proposed solution?
replyWork hard, do a good job, earn more money for yourself and family, save money, start your own business?
replyAlso, when you do a good job, ex-coworkers will often reach out to you to give you better opportunities.
You do what you can to do good within the confines of the parameters available to you.
reply> If you want a job that you should care about then work in public service
replyI did that in the health sector of my local gov, the whole place was full of consultant who either got contracted directly from Oracle, used to work at Oracle before but moved there or took the Oracle pill early on and never got the idea to see how things get done elsewhere. It was impossible to ship anything that's not made of Oracle technologies and that was not an accident but a deliberate construction.
Another option is to do work you care about, in a way that doesn't attract the attention of people who might thwart it. I think plenty of socially or personally redeeming work can be done this way, for instance within very large companies. Enough of this work, in fact, that the net outcome for people and society is actually beneficial.
replybasically agree, though if you work for a transparently evil company you should care, and quit
replyor stay, and be subtly bad enough at your job to negatively affect the progress of the enterprise.
replyHowever: work is more fun if you care about it.
replyDo you think people at Merk or Pfizer or Disney don't care about what they work on?
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