Justify
How can I justify working a meaningless for-profit job, discussing irrelevant things like how to name a variable or how to structure this code or if we should build this or that feature, when around me the world is going to shit?
We are at the brink of what looks like a massive war in the Middle East with dire consequences for those people living there, but also for others around the world. What am I talking about? We are in the middle of a massive war in the Middle East, already! And of course, there are the other wars and miseries that have been raging for so long, we have normalized them already: Russia's invasion of Ukraine, civil wars in African countries like Sudan, concentration camps of minorities in eastern China and all the issues in South American countries like Venezuela, just to name a few.
Fascism and authotarianism is rising across the globe, refugees who've lost everything are turned away at the door as if they try to enter Berghain. Vulnerable groups like trans folks are marginalized and hated on even more.
The planet is burning and flooding simulatenously because of rising CO2 levels and declining biodiversity.
All this is happening for the same and only reason. FUCKING GREED. It is happening because there are a bunch of greedy motherfuckers getting their way, lying and plundering and raping the rest of us. FUCK THEM. They all deserve to rot in a prison cell for the rest of their pathetic lives.
So, how can I — or you — people, who are so comfortable because they were born at the right place, at the right time, with genes that endow them with abilities that are rewarded with money in our capitlistic society, how can we justify doing some bullshit job that nobody cares about? How can we justify not spending at least some of our time helping others who are so in need?
I am not talking about going to the frontlines of the war or donating kidneys. I don't have the courage. I am talking about just DOING SOMETHING USEFUL that does not make some capitalistic assholes richer, but serves the people.
I, for one, can no longer justify not doing this.
We are at the brink of what looks like a massive war in the Middle East with dire consequences for those people living there, but also for others around the world. What am I talking about? We are in the middle of a massive war in the Middle East, already! And of course, there are the other wars and miseries that have been raging for so long, we have normalized them already: Russia's invasion of Ukraine, civil wars in African countries like Sudan, concentration camps of minorities in eastern China and all the issues in South American countries like Venezuela, just to name a few.
Fascism and authotarianism is rising across the globe, refugees who've lost everything are turned away at the door as if they try to enter Berghain. Vulnerable groups like trans folks are marginalized and hated on even more.
The planet is burning and flooding simulatenously because of rising CO2 levels and declining biodiversity.
All this is happening for the same and only reason. FUCKING GREED. It is happening because there are a bunch of greedy motherfuckers getting their way, lying and plundering and raping the rest of us. FUCK THEM. They all deserve to rot in a prison cell for the rest of their pathetic lives.
So, how can I — or you — people, who are so comfortable because they were born at the right place, at the right time, with genes that endow them with abilities that are rewarded with money in our capitlistic society, how can we justify doing some bullshit job that nobody cares about? How can we justify not spending at least some of our time helping others who are so in need?
I am not talking about going to the frontlines of the war or donating kidneys. I don't have the courage. I am talking about just DOING SOMETHING USEFUL that does not make some capitalistic assholes richer, but serves the people.
I, for one, can no longer justify not doing this.