40% Of Fast Food Workers Think Their Jobs Might Make The World Worse

In the book-turned-movie "Thank You for Smoking," tobacco lobbyist Nick Naylor meets every week with his buds, a firearms lobbyist and alcohol lobbyist, and later with lobbyists from the fast food, hazardous waste and oil drilling industries. They call themselves the "Merchants of Death" or "The MOD Squad."

Few people actually consider their jobs evil. Even if the work we do everyday does have a net negative effect on the world, most people have developed a sophisticated set of rationalizations to pretend it isn't true.

But not everyone. According to data collected by PayScale from 30,000 workers over the past year, and obtained by The New York Times, 15.9 percent of employees in tobacco manufacturing agreed with the statement, "My job may make the world a worse place," as did 5 percent of workers in the gambling industry, 4.4 percent of gas station employees, 2.8 percent of fast food restaurant workers, 2.1 percent of alcohol wholesalers, 1.9 percent of petroleum wholesalers, and 1.8 percent of those in "legal services."