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He comics seem to criticize giant wasteful stupid evil bureaucracies... But he worked for google for years and now moved to twitter.. If he's genuinely critical

• andi999 5y ago
  They pay well?
• draw_down 5y ago
  To feel better about being inside of one, of course. See, if I criticize the machine then I’m not just a cog in it. What truly matters isn’t what I wake up and do every day, it’s what’s in my heart that counts. My soul is pure, don’t look at my hands. He’s a long time employee with a presumably significant amount of equity. Significant at an individual level, I mean. He’s fully imbricated and implicated in what he portrays as so horrible (see the ICE comic if you think I’m exaggerating). Truly acknowledging this would likely be traumatic. I mean, shit, he’d have to do something about it! He’d have to live a totally different way, for just one thing. He’d have to divest... all of that is not gonna happen. So, comics.
• notacoward 5y ago
  Twitter's visibility might be high, but as a company they're tiny compared to Google (about 1/20 by headcount). They're also several years younger as a company. Those differences could have a pretty big effect on how far down the "mega-corp bureaucracy curve" they are, so maybe compare Twitter today to Google in 2013 (less than half way through Cornet's tenure there). Or maybe he sees a genuine difference in corporate culture, or in technical content, or in work from home policies, etc. How you feel about any one thing at a company can color how you feel about it in general, even if other aspects are actually the same.