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IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: Iā€™m writing this post as a personal reminder, not to tell anyone what they should do, convince anybody of anything, impart moral lessons or grant any kind of ā€œlicensesā€. Life is hard and I have enough on my plate with setting my own moral compass šŸ™


Iā€™m currently in a ā€œrelaxedā€ search of new professional challenges. By ā€œrelaxedā€ I mean that I have not openly published it and Iā€™m not intensively searching: for the moment, I just knocked a couple of doors (from people/companies I feel a high level of alignment) and entered a few processes with people who directly approached me (Iā€™m such a privileged person and I feel SO LUCKY šŸ˜).

Still, this is a moment when Iā€™m asking myself questions such as:

  • What kind of industries do I feel specially motivated to join?
  • What kind of industries or business models or organizational behaviour I donā€™t want to join?
  • What are my ā€œethical red linesā€? How big is the ā€œgrey areaā€ to me?

This is not the first time that I pose myself this kind of questions. I remembered that Edu Ferro (a reference to me in so many ways) has his own ā€œethical stanceā€ published here, so I thought it would be a perfect moment to write down mine. And I want to be so specific as possible; otherwise it would be useless for myself.

For different reasons (i.e. there are higher and lower levels of ā€œcriticalityā€ in this list) and with no particular order and whithout this being an exhaustive list, I prefer not to work in:

  • Fast fashion (and anything directly related)
  • Traditional banks (especially those with proven record of abuses and illegalities)
  • ā€œBuy now, pay laterā€ or any kind of ā€œfast creditā€ business models
  • Porn industry
  • Military industry
  • Casinos, gambling and bets (ā€œbeen there, done thatā€)
  • Any green-washing, or generally speaking, ā€œethical-washingā€ activity
  • Crypto businesses and alike
  • Activities where people can quickly lose a lot of money
  • Delivery riders business models that often exploit riders, typically misclassified as ā€œindependent contractorsā€
  • Business models whose main goal is encouraging wild consumerism of any kind
  • Highly polluting activities
  • Anything where there is no full transparency about the business model and how they earn money
  • Any activity without ā€œfull honestyā€: lying, cheating, hiding relevant information or ā€œtrickingā€ their users, providers, employees, etc.

And I write these words being fully conscious about my own incoherences: with the current complexity of the world and society, I donā€™t think that itā€™s possible to live on it being ā€œfully coherentā€. Sometimes I would even say that it isnā€™t ā€œhealthyā€. Long life to the cognitive dissonances! šŸ˜†

Despite my efforts to minimize it, Iā€™m acutely aware of being part of a global community that continuously exploits other regions and people. Shame on me. Shame on us.

Regarding some topics, my views have evolved in the past, and I hope they will continue to do so in the future. Still, Iā€™m not always in peace with that, which I think is good šŸ™

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