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This is a good point, however, I think this would apply more to workers who have already been employed for awhile. Anyone joining should have the sense they'll
by almost_usual 8y ago
This is a good point, however, I think this would apply more to workers who have already been employed for awhile. Anyone joining should have the sense they'll be subjected to dubious practices.
- Lio 8y agoYou'd think that but that isn't what the experiment showed. None of the subjects had been through the experiment before. They were all commanded by an authority figer (man in a white coat with a clipboard) to shock an unseen but heard fellow subject with increasingly large voltages. The "victim" was an actor who begs for mercy with each shock and then suddenly goes quiet. The experiment goes on with the subject shocking the "dead" actor when it finishes. Most did what they were told with no complaints. Some complained that what they were doing was wrong but still did it anyway. Only a very few said "no I won't do that, it's wrong" and left the experiment. There's no reason to think that the people working for Facebook or Google are any different to those test subjects. They'll spread fake news, dodge taxes or compile massive amounts of data on people just because they're told to by their boss. Just like most other people would.