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When Your Job Conflicts With Your Values But You Need the Income

I make decent money as a data analyst but I spend my days helping a company manipulate people into buying things they don't need and I feel sick about it but I have student loans and rent.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The tension between survival needs and moral integrity creates a form of spiritual suffering that compromises one's sense of wholeness.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Buddhist economics — right livelihood?”

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