Giovanni Mascellani

@redsad@ohai.social Why wouldn't you? Making somebody else's life nicer with your work seems a desirable thing to me.

@elly 9. Install Home Assistant? Though I have a similar story, from a few years ago. Leaving irrelevant context aside, there was a building with a broken heating system, in winter. A room of this building had a number of computers in it, and they were all mining bitcoins. Guess which room in the building was a bit warmer than all the others?

@thesquirrelfish@sfba.social I don't think I agree. A baker baking good bread makes my life nicer; a cleaning person that cleans where I live makes my life nicer; my kids' teachers make their life (and therefore mine, since I care about them) nicer. Why wouldn't you consider those jobs? They really look like jobs to me. It's possible that not everybody receives the opportunity to have a socially positive job. But why can't you dream of one?

@thesquirrelfish@sfba.social I don't think the situation is that dire, though it might be that I am just luckier; but even if it is, that just reinforces my original point: we can't one dream of a job that pays decently and is positive to the society? Your own toot looks like a good example of how to do it.