> Somebody as brilliant as Peter Thiel would be fired today, or more likely: never hired Or never apply to work for Google in the first place. There are fashio

> Somebody as brilliant as Peter Thiel would be fired today, or more likely: never hired Or never apply to work for Google in the first place. There are fashions in morality just as there are in clothing ( http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html ) , and who can predict now what ideas may become crimethink to Google's HR department in future? If you're a talented, in-demand programmer, why work for a company that might arbirarily sack you based on your opinions? This doesn't mean Google will fail -- they have sewn up the web advertising market tight enough that they could weather a decade of bad decision-making. I'll leave the last words to PG: > Almost certainly, there is something wrong with you if you don't think things you don't dare say out loud. and: > I suspect the statements that make people maddest are those they worry might be true.