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> Google employees care a lot about their "TC" and "GSUs" - that's it. You’re generalizing 100,000+ people of all ages and backgrounds from all around the worl

• m0zg 7y ago
  Exactly. And I'd also like to point out that earning good money and ethics aren't mutually exclusive things at all. I certainly didn't spend my years there for comp alone. I like to think, as well, that my work there helped improve the world in some small way, and I could justify that position pretty easily, with evidence. I get that people on this site get a raging hard-on against tracking on the web, I suffer from the same, but to say that getting site owners to snitch on you in exchange for their sites being able to exist is some huge breach of ethics is not a rational position to take. When one is inclined to blame someone or some company for all the troubles in the world, it is helpful to ask them about the _specific_ harm that they feel the object of their ire is causing them. If they respond with a laundry list of things, that's a tell they aren't thinking rationally about it.