Should I quit working for an unethical company?

Sticking to your ethics in a capitalist society isn’t easy.

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It took getting laid off for the umpteenth time in my late 20s for me to understand what’s always been true: I am not my job. For me, that distinction was about separating my identity from work, but that distance might feel even more necessary if the work you’re doing isn’t strictly, well, good.

There are a number of ways you might find yourself in this position. You may, like this Diemer, have ended up working for a problematic company solely by accident. Or maybe it took some time for you to realize your values didn’t align. Or maybe it’s neither of those things. Maybe the money, the need for employment and healthcare and benefits, trumped everything else. It’s those things that also make it so hard to quit when confronted with the ugly reality. Should you do it anyways?