• Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip
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          A bunch of new agents aren’t getting paid at all.

          But no, starting salary is like $48k. Like 4k a month. Seems to go up to the 80s. Not exactly “risk Hague trial” levels. In line with most office jobs.

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      I don’t interpret their response that way.

      As someone who is not in a good financial place, I would never work for ICE.

      However, as someone who is not in a good financial place, if I realized I was probably working for an evil empire and couldn’t change anything from the inside: I wouldn’t be able to quit because my family would starve. I’d need to find another way to provide first, and that’s not easy when you’ve got kids and debt in a bad job market.

      Stocking grocery store shelves wouldn’t pay the bills. That’s fairy tale logic/something that people with means can joke about doing.

      Heck yeah though, if stocking shelves paid 6 figures I’d apply immediately.

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        However, as someone who is not in a good financial place, if I realized I was probably working for an evil empire and couldn’t change anything from the inside: I wouldn’t be able to quit because my family would starve. I’d need to find another way to provide first, and that’s not easy when you’ve got kids and debt in a bad job market.

        Ok, fair enough. Hopefully the enraged mob will accept this excuse once the evil empire tanks and it’s mass graves are uncovered.

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          But hey, at least they will be staying in a so-so house until that happens, so they can act like they are being responsible to their immediate network.