For context, the PSU student council and elected body has had a resolution calling for PSU to divest from Boeing and cut all relationships since 2021, which the administration has ignored. It is the ‘democratic’ will of the student to cut ties with Boeing but you wouldn’t know that by all the kvetching and moaning in these threads and on the PSU subreddit

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    Then perhaps they should design highways for the city. I’m looking at random locations in states that aren’t known for their tech industry, and I’m finding a bunch of non military shit. There are jobs where you travel from location to location and handle IT matters. There are customer service jobs, development jobs for telecoms. I say this as a CS major without a career yet: tough shit. STEM fuckers are some of the laziest, most entitled bastards

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      customer service does not pay a livable wage. and you need like a couple handful of people to design a highway

      I say this as a CS major without a career yet: tough shit

      yea, probably cause you didn’t choose to sell out right?

      You’re just supporting my argument that almost the entire portion of American jobs that pay a good wage is in the business of the worst types of exploitation. Is that really that surprising by far the largest empire on this planet has a crap load of evil jobs?

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        I’m also curious how it was decided these jobs were non-military. Like how many steps removed is good enough? If they do business with / are a vendor for Honeywell but don’t directly sell to the DoD is that OK or is that complicity? What if it is a small portion of the business but you don’t work on it?

        There’s entire fields/industries that probably can’t get removed from this, and while it is fine to say people shouldn’t support them it really comes across more as blinders on how extensive this is.