Ridiculous personal blame-ism. Do some travel around the world and see the damage that the American military or western capitalism has done in some places. Or what the oil industry has done to the planet. If I judged everybody by their hypocritical involvement in injustice, I'd have no friends, and I'd hate myself to boot. (Ok, those two might already be true, but...)
Solutions to systematic problems require a systematic approach. Personal blame solves nothing. I chose to leave Google, and I took a huge financial hit for it... but I wouldn't reproach anybody for staying there, especially around here where the other employment options aren't so great.
It's entirely unrelated to the topic, but I hope you were joking about having no friends and hating yourself. You're a valuable person and I'd be more than happy to be your friend.
In this case the systemic problem is precisely the belief that itβs somehow not your, nor your friends, fault. Being Americans you are directly profiting from it; destroying other regions of the world is a fundamental branch of American economy.
You're truly in Cambridge and you make such arguments about Americans? There's this collection of stories and myths I've heard about that talks about casting stones, planks in eyes, etc that comes to mind. We might as well just play the Anglo-Saxon bad and Anglo-Saxon fault cards together.
Solutions to systematic problems require a systematic approach. Personal blame solves nothing. I chose to leave Google, and I took a huge financial hit for it... but I wouldn't reproach anybody for staying there, especially around here where the other employment options aren't so great.