You don’t need to be not-doing evil things to feel dissatisfied with your work. There was a line in the post about not having written anything they actually believed in for a long time.
That kind of thing weighs one’s soul down, even if it’s not “evil” in a grand sense.
Yes, but also at the same time I feel like we need to raise the bar for what isn't evil. Maybe not Bible levels of unwashed hands are evil. Maybe we could start calling the BS evil. That doesn't mean we have to call everyone involved evil, but the BS can still be evil.
I imagine the author found themselves approaching their job like many of us here would approach a highly paid job where you have to write COBOL or caricaturally bad entreprise Java all day.
That kind of thing weighs one’s soul down, even if it’s not “evil” in a grand sense.