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Agreed. I've never been at FB, but been at a similarly big "darling" software company (don't want to go into specifics for identification reasons) and it largel

Agreed. I've never been at FB, but been at a similarly big "darling" software company (don't want to go into specifics for identification reasons) and it largely is about creating an internal "us-vs-them" mentality and a culture that lionizes the good deeds over the bad. Don't think of the employees as evil, they are probably legitimately not aware of the entirety of what's going on. Like soldiers in a war, they only know how their battles are going, not the war.

pdkl95 9y ago
> evil Hollywood et al popularize the misconception that evil is fantastic and done with intent. Most of the time evil is banal[1]. The larger problems happen when the unremarkable, small deviances from acceptable behavior becomes normalized[2][3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem#The_banality_of_evil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem#The_bana... [2] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Professionalism/Diane_Vaughan_and_the_normalization_of_deviance https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Professionalism/Diane_Vaughan_... [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGLYEDpNu60 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGLYEDpNu60
esturk 9y ago
Are you suggesting they aren't even aware of these issue because there's a big difference for one to look for answers and stay educated and one who chooses to stay ignorant knowingly. No one will empathize with the latter group because that's how most weak people in history become complicit to great atrocities.