Idiosyncratic Industries: Discovering the Future of Sustainability

On the outside, they sell sustainable power. They're working with the government to make the world a better place and put fossil fuels to rest. One the inside, they aren't trying to help anybody. They kidnap, torture, and experiment on fellow humans. They've taken countless lives across many generations.

The worst part, depending on who you ask, is that no one really knows what these experiments are for. Their leader is a secretive man, and only the highest individuals in the company even know his name. Orders come from the top, and they don't come with explanations. Each section of the company is told what to do and they do it, and nobody asks any questions. How could they, after all, when the company recruits college students who need the financial aid? They pay for their schooling in exchange for no questions asked employment. You do what you're told to because they allowed you to graduate with zero debt.

Not to mention, those who ask things tend to disappear. It's taboo to ever talk about them again at work, so nobody does. They do as they are told, because that's what they were told to do. They complete training courses that don't all have to do with power, because that's what they were told to do. They examine themselves, their morals and their values, and they determine what atrocities they might *hypothetically* commit in order to keep the things they have now. They question and tell their professors what bribes might encourage them to break whatever values they've identified.

And if they have to do something inhumane every once in a while, it's all in the name of the future of sustainability.