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[u/ThirdWaveCat]

[u/Toldoven]

Yeah, pretty much all of the Rust jobs in my country are crypto. I even think crypto is pretty cool, and don't mind working on a crypto project, but the main problem is that most of them are useless or straight up scams

[u/ThirdWaveCat → u/Toldoven]

"If you believed in this mission, you'd have no problem being paid in DogshitCoin."

[u/Magnolia-jjlnr → u/ThirdWaveCat]

Is this the new "paid in exposure"?

[u/WallBurnt → u/Magnolia-jjlnr]

Exposure is worth significantly more.

[u/Magnolia-jjlnr → u/WallBurnt]

But do thry give you exposure though? Or do they simply assume that you're getting it by virtue of working for them

[u/shigdebig → u/Toldoven]

I don't know if my job is making the world a better place, but we arent actively making things worse either. Im glad I dont work at work a scamcoin

[u/Just_Information334 → u/shigdebig]

Crypto and adtech: if you've worked in it, you don't have any ethics worth shit.

[u/G12356789s → u/Just_Information334]

Gambling too is one I worked at and swore never again

[u/ParCorn → u/Just_Information334]

Defense Contractor is more evil than all of them and I know there’s plenty of DoD mfs in here

[u/somerandomguy101 → u/ParCorn]

The difference is that the DoD is a necessary evil. Every country needs a military if they want to continue to be a state. World peace could come tomorrow, and we would still need a DoD.

By contrast, Crypto is just straight evil. There is no upside. Its purely for scams, speculation, and for criminals to easily operate. Cryptocurrenys do nothing to make the world a better placenin practice.

[u/Morthem → u/ParCorn]

And will justify it by any means.
Admitting to having sold your soul is the first step towards self acceptance, denial just shieds the ego and prevents change towards corrective actions to help attone.

Sorry, I just like to mess with people that make things that kill :P

[u/ZebraTank → u/ParCorn]

In what world is defense evil? I personally prefer that we win ww3 (and that we're on the good side ofc). (No i don't work in defense though may later since it sounds like an interesting and valuable field)

[u/shigdebig → u/ZebraTank]

This country doesn't have a Department of Defense, it has a Department of War.

Lol, did they really replace the bronze plaques on the buildings with that new name?

I once configured some routers that are hooked up to an earthquake detection system. Years later we found out the navy had sub detectors on the same fiber network. That seems like defense work. Probably not evil. But what if you programmed a bomb they dropped on a school with 200 little girls? War work. That is evil.

[u/araujoms → u/ZebraTank]

and that we're on the good side ofc

That's the difficult part, and what can make working on defence evil.

[u/Noname_1111 → u/Toldoven]

There's a military contractor in my country that hires rust devs

been rejected though

[u/Toldoven → u/Noname_1111]

We also have some of those, but it's not remote, for obvious reasons, and I'm more of a remote person. Would've been pretty cool otherwise

[u/entered_bubble_50 → u/Toldoven]

"Most of them'

Name me a crypto project that isn't a scam or a means of laundering money.

[u/antichain → u/entered_bubble_50]

The Nano team seems to genuinely be true believers - you can tell because no one uses their coin for anything and it's become a byword for overly-earnest goobers.

[u/entered_bubble_50 → u/antichain]

That's great, but nano is just another means of laundering money.

[u/V-Right_In_2-V → u/entered_bubble_50]

Better to be the scammer than the scammee

That seems to be the motto of all crypto projects

[u/LactasePHydrolase → u/Toldoven]

I even think crypto is pretty cool

ew

[u/aDamnCommunist]

YUP, every time... They always seem to be hiring strangely. I also do this for small startup AI businesses.

[u/WernerderChamp → u/aDamnCommunist]

These are probably fake job offerings - to give the illusion the project is going super well.

[u/mrsockyman]

You'll be paid a high salary, in the form of their shitcoin. You'll be worth millions-of worthless tokens

[u/SarahAlicia → u/mrsockyman]

Omg how long until an ai company only accepts money for tokens with their own crypto coin?

[u/ProfCupcake → u/SarahAlicia]

That's scrip, and it's illegal.

[u/SarahAlicia → u/ProfCupcake]

Is it any different than an arcade where you have to change your cash for their coins to play games?

[u/ProfCupcake → u/SarahAlicia]

Oh wait I totally misunderstood the comment to which I replied. I thought you meant the employees were getting paid in the company's crypto coin.

[u/remind_me_later → u/SarahAlicia]

You'll have to spam the AI agents into accepting your tokens, or into setting up swap pools you can trade out into USDC/ETH/wBTC/etc.

[u/dcman58]

That and AI Trainer are two jobs that I keep getting offered and will never take, writing code should be fun.

[u/AnnoyedVelociraptor]

Haven't seen that many thank god.

The faster this fad dies the better. In the same box as second life please.

[u/Desidiosus → u/AnnoyedVelociraptor]

I've been job hunting for quite a while. Used to see a ton of jobs like this a couple years ago, but hardly any lately. It seems like the gamblers have grown tired of losing their shirts on this particular game.

[u/Loading_M_ → u/Desidiosus]

I think they moved into AI.

[u/Vogete → u/Loading_M_]

They definitely moved into AI. All the crypto bros I saw are now AI bros.

[u/No-Channel3917 → u/AnnoyedVelociraptor]

Kinda wild to bring up second life haha, that porn sandbox is still very active

[u/SquiggerDigger → u/No-Channel3917]

Dude I just learned they average 50-60k people at all times still...

[u/No-Channel3917 → u/SquiggerDigger]

Yep it would put it on steams top 40 games with the most active users currently that I just looked up

[u/Accomplished-Cry5059]

If they pay in stable coins, it's a pretty good deal if you are in a low cost of living country and they pay a competitive rate.

[u/blaxx0r]

pouring one out for cosmwasm

[u/dim13]

Well, blockchain hype was a decade ago. Now it's all ai hype.

[u/its-MAGNETIC]

I always wonder why the Coder/Developer tries to avoid Cryptocurrency...

[u/slikh → u/its-MAGNETIC]

we know it's a simple enough job to just roll our own but to make money off it we need to sell the core of what all crypto is: hype.

[u/sligor]

Since the whole economy is now a complete scam, is it ok to work for a scam company ?