Thanks for the responses. I was not aware of the article on harmful careers and think it is very good (I recognize that many of these issues are hard, so even tough I might be a bit more skeptical about some of these high paying jobs and examples I could easily be wrong). Thanks for bringing it to my attention, it shows that some of my criticism was a bit misguided.
Surely it’s at least implied that people shouldn’t earn to give through fraud/criminal behaviour?
It’s more than implied, e.g. https://80000hours.org/articles/harmful-career/
Edit: removed a quote to encourage people to skim the full article
Thanks for the responses. I was not aware of the article on harmful careers and think it is very good (I recognize that many of these issues are hard, so even tough I might be a bit more skeptical about some of these high paying jobs and examples I could easily be wrong). Thanks for bringing it to my attention, it shows that some of my criticism was a bit misguided.
Maybe ‘vast majority of cases’ is too ambiguous or allows too much wiggle room for SBF-alikes.
Good point, I removed the quote. The article is pretty nuanced and I think I wasn’t making it justice by quoting just two sentences.
I wish you kept the quote. The effect is that I didn’t read the quote and did not read the article.