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To any HN readers who work at Facebook: your company is morally decrepit and you are complicit. If you go to LinkedIn and indicate that you're looking, you'll h
by Sir_Cmpwn 8y ago
To any HN readers who work at Facebook: your company is morally decrepit and you are complicit. If you go to LinkedIn and indicate that you're looking, you'll have 20 leads in your inbox by lunch. You don't have to work there.
- treis 8y agoFrom Google, MS, Instacart, Uber et al? The reality is that every major tech company does scummy stuff. There are vanishly few tech companies that don't.
- Sir_Cmpwn 8y agoThere are a fuckload of tech companies. You don't have to work for a big name.
- treis 8y agoOne day you're working for a plucky start up. The next you're working for a big name that's stealing tip money. There's a reason that these companies do what they do. Fraud, breaking the law, and dark patterns are way easier ways to make money than doing so do ethically and legally. Companies either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain. I'm exaggerating a bit, but realistically the list of ethical tech companies is a lot shorter than the list of unethical ones.
- Sir_Cmpwn 8y agoThis really isn't true. The vast majority of tech companies are ethical, at least a far sight more so than Facebook. They don't make headlines so you have a bais.
- chillacy 8y agoGlad you’re a moral bastion but I gotta pay the bills and big companies have better work life balance than unicorn startups.
- Sir_Cmpwn 8y agoThere are lots of ethical companies which are in the middle, too. But that's okay, your moral lackings are definitely excused by your lazy approach to job hunting.
- jamiek88 8y agoWhataboutism doesn’t help. There are levels and degrees of bad behavior. Facebook is rotten from the head down.
- treis 8y agoMaybe it's just me but I don't think Facebook is particularly bad. They acquire user data and sell it to anyone who wants it. They should better limit the data they collect and who they sell it to. But compared with stealing tip money or literally killing someone? It's just not nearly as bad.
- lostlogin 8y agoWhat about their dubious involvement in recent elections does that bother you? > literally killing someone You’ve presumably not read about Myanmar or fbs involvement in organising genocide?
- treis 8y ago>What about their dubious involvement in recent elections does that bother It mostly bothers because it seems like a great deal of the recent hate towards FB is because people blame them for Trump. If Clinton wins I don't think people care. That said, yes I think FB should do a better job of "know your customer" when selling ads. Obviously they shouldn't sell ads to Russian intelligence. But it doesn't bother me all that much. For one, I don't think it had that big of an impact. For two, it's a dangerous path to go down when you start questioning if your political opponents have the right justifications for their votes. >You’ve presumably not read about Myanmar or fbs involvement in organising genocide? Which part of that involved a FB employee going out and literally killing someone?
- lostlogin 8y agoI was mainly thinking of Brexit, followed by US elections. In relation to fb, do you see any problem with what happened in Myanmar? They allowed the organising of a genocide.