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[–] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago (2 children)

At 60k per kilo, my weight in gold is a rough 3.5 million. I'd have a pretty damn horrible day for 3.5 million.

So that really just rules out stuff with long-term consequences. Asbestos mining, organ donor, etc..

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

A single day of asbestos mining isn't gonna hurt you.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Organ donor is not a profession.

Right?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Depends on whose organs you're donating

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's called organ trafficking.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What if you do it for the love of the game?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Organ trafficking as a hobby

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

When I donate one kidney, I'm a hero. When I donate 10 kidneys, I'm an 'organ trafficker'. What did I do wrong?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

He's gone, just donated second kidney.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Law enforcement, I could never respect myself after taking money to be muscle for the psychopathic hoarder class.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (10 children)

I have friends in police that joined out of spirit of mission.

Road safety, counterfeiting detection, contraband, drug traficking, slavery, violent crime, environmental damage, poaching...

These are situations where police enforce rules for the better of all.

There is more to being a police than just muscle.

The police in my country held siege to our parliement building to remember our politicians and government the police is sworn to uphold and defend the country and constitution, not governments and politicians.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Ah yes joining the fascist organization to make the world better place.

I can't find it but there was a nice Finnish comic where a guy joins nazi army in early 1900s and says "I'm changing the system from inside"

Edit: found it

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

If your friend is in America:

Counterfeiting is investigated by the FBI, drug trafficking prevention (targeted at the source, such as cartels) is handled by the DEA, human traffickingβ€”FBI, poaching is monitored by fish and game.

There are times when a cop may have the ability to do some good now and again, but a key part of the job is harassing homeless people, busting young black guys for having some coke in their pockets, and sitting on the side of the road getting paid to aim a speed gun for a few hours. Whatever notion your friend had of being a hero is more likely to be found in almost any other law enforcement agency than the bottom level flatfoots we call the police.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Military / weapons, police, bailiffs, pyramid scheme grifts, wellness grifts, petrochemicals, mining, financial services (unless it was something like a credit union)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

You wouldn't work for the police for 3-5 million????

How awful must the police be where you live?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

No I wouldn't. It would go against my ethics and my politics. Police are police, everywhere. Ultimately they exist to protect the interests of the ruling classes. While the level of violence and corruption and abuse of power might vary from place to place, and there may be good work that they do, there is violence and corruption and abuse of power wherever there are police. I want no part in that, no money is worth it. And I wouldn't last long in a racist and sexist workplace anyway.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You could be the change you want to see and earning alot of money, to maybe do more change you care about.

It's literally worse for everyone, that you say no to this. Including yourself.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Out of all the things on the list, that was the one I understood the most. I’d be willing to risk my body, comfort, or sanity for a few million, but joining the police will cost you your soul.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Selling things to people who shouldn't have it or need it. Money doesn't mean shit if you're fucking people over.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Executioner for the US prison system. In some states it's a real job, and it's not a doctor, it's just whoever is sociopathic enough to want to do it.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

I'm a big guy so my weight in gold is pretty compelling tbh.

I'd probably do anything not deadly or grievously injuring for $7.5M in gold in one day.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sex worker would be pretty rough and possibly deadly. Being a soldier in one of America's resource wars. Anything to do with criminal justice. Working in a narcotics cartel. It's a lot of gold but no point if I'm gonna die.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sex worker could be fairly safe, if sex workers had any rights in my country. (context: USA. There are countries where sex workers are are least somewhat respected and have rights. Not here.) Then it would be about as safe as being a doctor who makes house calls, or hospice, or other jobs where you may be in private with another person for some reason.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't think any reasonable person would actually turn down their weight in gold for one unpleasant day of work, unless there was a high probability of grievous injury or death to themselves or others.

But if we're just being hyperbolic, I deliberately never worked in the food industry. I knew if I worked in food somewhere, I would get sick if it and never want to eat there again.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

im thinking traumatizing or against your morals.. maybe skinning dogs for meat

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think you could do almost anything for a day. One day is "Here's Jim, he's new, and we are going to show him how we do things here" stuff where little actual work happens.

A month would be a more realistic situation. I wouldn't want to be military in an active war zone, work for a drug/trafficking cartel, or any other dangerous profession where the likelihood of dying or going to prison is high. Or professions where I'd have to actively harm people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

There are professions where one day on the job is enough to leave marks.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Joke answer: retail

Serious answer: anything that took me more than 50 ft above the ground

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

First thing that comes to my mind is something military-like or something that involves killing People (innocent or not).

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Working in a foundry or an oil rig. They both seem like pretty shit jobs due to the hazards, materials and conditions.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Know a manager of an oil rig.

Away from friends and family for months at a time, extremely dangerous, 12+ hour shifts, constantly dealing with issues with staff and all around miserable and stressful. Said he wished he had gotten into literally anything else.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

a days work for 80 kg of gold? I'll do anything

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Assassin.

Also anything I can't do that I'd you put me in that place would result in death of others or environmental devastation. Emergency room doctor, oil rig operator...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Advertising.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

No you could fuck with him so hard it would be worth it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Police, mining, executioner, anything to do with fossil fuels, factory farming, surgery, human trafficking, drug trafficking, maybe prostitution.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Cell tower or wind turbine repair.

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