Title: I look around and I feel like all the startups are either bullshit or making the world worse off. I&#x27;ve been a software engineer and data scientist. I&#x27;ve worked with machine learning. What should I do next?<p>I&#x27;m sick of working with advertising-based businesses because I believe advertising is convincing people to buy useless shit. I don&#x27;t want to work in health, because the government and insurance have fucked up the healthcare system, and I don&#x27;t want to be part of it. I kinda like fin-tech, but it seems at the end of the day about make rich people richer and&#x2F;or getting poor people to pollute more. I&#x27;ve thought about heading more towards pure research, but I want to know I&#x27;m doing something for a good purpose.<p>I&#x27;m also totally sick of the ideological crap at lots of startups. I don&#x27;t want to have to drink the kool-aid. Neither do I want to work for some large corporate machine.<p>I want there to be real values behind what I&#x27;m working on that I can believe in. Despite claims to contrary, I find the entire business culture rotten to the core. What should I do?
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