{"id":16384,"date":"2022-07-31T11:29:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=16384"},"modified":"2022-08-01T08:21:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T02:51:56","slug":"moral-signs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2022\/07\/31\/moral-signs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Moral Signs 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“It’s these times. Morality is a moving target”<\/p>Robert Folger, Snowpiercer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

A ‘grandchild’ at work wants to move to an edtech. She is convinced it’s an ‘opportunity that she won’t get later’. I contest on both counts. She is immensely talented, and given her work ethic, it is easy to see that she will be an absolute star. I would like her to do well, but it is an organisation I have actively talked against – IRL and on Twitter – and there is enough proof of its misdeeds. She wasn’t aware of this, and is nonplussed, but doesn’t want to turn back now. I bring up our debates on how she felt Seagram’s “Men will be men” was legitimising misogyny, and furthering a regressive world view. That got us on to morality. I remembered the ‘professional’ version<\/a> I had written a while ago and sent it to her. I also remembered that I had meant to write this personal version earlier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morality and self image<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

(from the previous version)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re living in an era of \u2018woke\u2019 capitalism, right? I\u2019m Nike, I pretend to care about black people. You pretend to hate capitalism and buy my trainers.\u201d<\/p>\u201cIndustry\u201d (BBC\/HBO)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This pretension helps us retain our self image while consuming the things and experiences. There is narrative cohesion while avoiding uncomfortable truths. And sometimes, even some virtue signalling. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In general, the world is hyper competitive, and the choices we make might not sit well with self image, especially when morality is also at play. In the post, I had brought up the point that having a moral compass means saying goodbye to what would be considered lucrative opportunities. Even more so in the last few years. Crypto, real money gaming, fintech, edtech – the big pillars of the recent startup boom – all have moral loopholes (generalising). Same goes for Big Tech. But now regulation and external factors are catching up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The self image is gloating with \u201cthe arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.<\/em>\u201d (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) But everything is a cycle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s go beyond work and take say, entertainment. Recently, I tweeted <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

Formula 1, PGA, Premier League. And earlier this year, Aramco got into IPL. Saudi money and sportswashing, they must have made ownership into some meta sport.<\/p>— manu prasad (@manuscrypts) June 11, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote>