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Is there a need for that? Why don’t we call out bank employees for all the fraud and deception leading up to the 2008 crash? Car makers and oil companies emplo
by patrickk 6y ago
Is there a need for that?
Why don’t we call out bank employees for all the fraud and deception leading up to the 2008 crash? Car makers and oil companies employees for polluting the earth? Farmers for allowing run off into rivers? Pharma employees for relentlessly jacking up prices and pill mills poising countless people?
The reality is most employees have virtually zero impact on the direction of their company. The Zuckerbergs of this world will retreat to their private island estates in Hawaii till any backlash blows over.
- jdgoesmarching 6y agoIf only employees had some way of joining their collective voices to create an actual power structure that could bargain with executives and shareholders. Probably a bad idea though, we should just keep assuming that the founders lucky enough to reach critical mass will do the right thing for the world even when they are incentivized not to.
- Barrin92 6y ago>Why don’t we call out bank employees for all the fraud and deception leading up to the 2008 crash? Car makers and oil companies employees for polluting the earth? a lot of people complain about those all the time. In Iceland they even put them into prison. >The reality is most employees have virtually zero impact on the direction of their company I don't think that's true. Software workers, in particular at those large companies in senior positions wield quite a lot of influence. It's right that they're not owners of the firm, but they're in short supply and they command a lot of power. That said, even your average lowly developer has a very simple choice to have more than zero impact. Don't help them build these systems.