Not in this case. If you’re qualified to get a job at a company who will pay you to sell out your neighbor, you’re qualified to get a job with a decent boss who’ll never ask you do to do this kind of thing, pays 90% as much, and is still many times the national average salary.
The alternatives are not doing evil vs starving. They’re getting paid well for doing evil, or getting paid well for doing good or at least neutral.
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Not in this case. If you’re qualified to get a job at a company who will pay you to sell out your neighbor, you’re qualified to get a job with a decent boss who’ll never ask you do to do this kind of thing, pays 90% as much, and is still many times the national average salary.
The alternatives are not doing evil vs starving. They’re getting paid well for doing evil, or getting paid well for doing good or at least neutral.