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> Companies don't care about people. > So, the question is, do you trust me? :) No, I don't. If the history of capital concentration in the past 50 years has
by TheAdamAndChe 9y ago
> Companies don't care about people.
> So, the question is, do you trust me? :)
No, I don't. If the history of capital concentration in the past 50 years has taught me anything, it's that capitalism is ruthless, and that money and power corrupts. The simple fact of the matter is that even if the entirety of Google's upper management was full of good people, the fact that Google is a publicly traded company means the company must act sociopathically and unemotionally to maximize return for shareholders or risk the board's wrath.
They may not act evil now, but when they have no other way to provide the exponential growth expected by shareholders, I guarantee they will exploit users in every way possible.
- freshhawk 9y agoYou'd think software people, of all people, would understand that systems have their own emergent behaviour that doesn't simply reflect the behaviour of the nodes.
- cookiecaper 9y agoYes, and it is important to understand that people who stand up to the system and don't want to play ball are usually quietly crushed and destroyed by it. If you hear anything about them at all, you are likely to hear that they are terrible/incompetent/whatever. The system's preferred interpretation. Heroism is rarely recognized and even more rarely rewarded.
- TheAdamAndChe 9y agoI'm not saying I fight Google. They have monopolies in several tech industries, and I use several of their products daily. However, I don't trust them, and I'm well aware that they will do what they can to extract as much wealth out of me as possible.