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Wouldn't someone from inside the Facebook/Whatsapp team denounce it if that was the case? Like a whistle blower
by antpls 7y ago
Wouldn't someone from inside the Facebook/Whatsapp team denounce it if that was the case? Like a whistle blower
- brenden2 7y agoFB's history suggests they have a culture of not blowing the whistle when shady things are going on. I suspect most people want to keep their $500k+/year jobs instead of sticking their necks out. My friends who work at FAANG are largely mentally checked out, and just do it to collect their monies and retire ASAP. You can't pay rent with good feelings.
- pmlnr 7y ago> You can't pay rent with good feelings. So just keep making the world shittier. Gotta love individualist capitalism.
- brenden2 7y agoI quit my (good paying) job to burn through my savings and start my own company because I want to fix this, so it's not everyone who behaves that way :)
- cakemuncher 7y agoLook into B Corporations and read the last third of the book Lab Rats. You can make your company serve society and it's employees right without adopting shitty cultures that breeds suicides, pissing in bottles and burn outs and still make huge profits.
- vocatus_gate 7y agoI left the NSA after 4 years because I didn't want to support some of the things going on there. Can't dismantle it, but can at least not contribute.
- paulddraper 7y agoTo paraphrase Adam Smith, nothing has helped more people more than self-interest in a free market. Raised the standard of living for billions.
- claudiawerner 7y agoFortunately for normative social theory and political economy, a lot of research has happened since Adam Smith evengalized self-interest and the free market.
- tehjoker 7y agoThe free market never has, nor never will exist. The kind of unfair distribution of scarce items to people with the most money, the creating of a competitive rather than cooperative substrate for social interaction. These things tear society apart and have always needed to be moderated whenever a market is present.
- paulddraper 7y ago> The free market never has, nor never will exist. If you define the free market as nothing other than anarchy, then yes the free market is rare indeed. But I don't that know anyone that speaks in such absolutes.
- inimino 7y agoWhich part of Adam Smith are you paraphrasing exactly? Have you read him?
- paulddraper 7y ago> Which part of Adam Smith are you paraphrasing exactly? No one quote in particular; just a recurring theme. "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest" - The Wealth of Nations "The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition...is so powerful, that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations." - The Wealth of Nations "The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would...assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever" - The Wealth of Nations "In spite of their natural selfishness and rapacity [capitalists] are led by an invisible hand...and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of society" - The Theory of Moral Sentiments > Have you read him? Yes.
- cakemuncher 7y agoFacebook has a culture of snitching. It's advocated by the company to snitch on your teammates to higher-ups if you suspect something.
- anigbrowl 7y agoImagine you are the someone in a position to doso, what's your risk tolerance?
- TheRealPomax 7y agoThat's just passing the buck: instead of relying on the goodwill of government employees, you're now relying on the goodwill of Facebook employees. That's still "relying on goodwill" levels of security.