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I don't understand all these protests against defence contracts, China, CBP work. Guess what? These needs to be done by someone and if its not Google, it would
by telltruth 7y ago
I don't understand all these protests against defence contracts, China, CBP work. Guess what? These needs to be done by someone and if its not Google, it would be Palantir or Microsoft or Oracle or IBM. Google is not what used but at least they have better ethics than the most other companies who would jump to do whatever was asked of them. At least they could steer towards less evil. The era of no evil has ended, if there was one.
- aaomidi 7y agoThis is such a stupid argument. You can literally justify everything and anything with this. It's low effort and just a tactic to make one's self feel better about the world.
- fortylove 7y agoWhile I agree with you in general, it must be somewhat difficult to draw the line between what's a "good" defense contract, and what a "bad" one is. Surely we need _some_ defense contracts? Once you need some defense contracts, then I assume you want an ethical company handling them.
- yabadabadoes 7y agoWe keep them separate and for good reason. A threat from an enemy doesn't usually involve additional security for every Disney employee because Disney animatronics is AFAIK not a legitimate military target. Boeing primarily is a legitimate target. Where does Google want to be in that equation?
- whatitdobooboo 7y agoThey can still choose not to want to work on it. I'd imagine it slowly eats at you. If they believe that they are the best engineering org in the world, which may be true, then whatever other company does it might do a worse job. Google also has insane margins already - it's not really a convincing argument to anyone other than shareholders that Google needs more revenue whatever the cost. I do get your side of the argument, however.