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Yes the tech industry is really lacking people who want to "change the world."

But its an interesting thought exercise. Slavery seems like a cut and dry issue in terms of harm and human rights, yet overtime the "easy" moral problems are solved and you're left with the gray ones. What's today's moral equivalent of slavery that we need crusaders against?



I don’t know the answer but I like the question.


Factory farming.


Capitalism. Instead of outright owning people, we just rent them now. The core idea is still the same though. One set of people do the work, another set of people own the results.




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