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How are sociopathic tendencies of higher echelons of corporate management news to anyone? The only “newsworthy” part of it is it relates to google (which isn’t

• acdha 8y ago
  It’s not news in general but many people liked to pretend it wasn’t true of Silicon Valley or at least favorite companies like Google: sure, there are sharks in most places but we’re a strict meritocracy where only results matter! That’s been cracking over time as e.g. people noticed that all of the cool stuff Google does is a sideline for selling ads, Uber is a gypsy cab company which would fail the instant they had to comply with the law or pay for externalities, etc. Rather than letting SV redesign the world we’re hope the world will rein it in enough before more people are hurt. Given how strong that self-image has been in tech culture for decades, a lot of people are going to have strong emotions when it’s no longer possible to maintain cognitive dissonance.