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Not the OP, but I'm guessing the larger point is that if you're pulling $400k writing adware/spyware/analytics, you're at least complicit in oligarchs concentra

by caeril 5y ago

Not the OP, but I'm guessing the larger point is that if you're pulling $400k writing adware/spyware/analytics, you're at least complicit in oligarchs concentrating their power, control, and ownership of your personal data. Should you (not you, dear poster, but the hypothetical FAANG employee) be put against the wall? no. But you also have no right to complain about inequality or encroachments on freedom or privacy if you're actively working to aid those ends. You either quit, or you shut up. Those are the options.

malcolmgreaves 5y ago
Yes because getting a salary of 0.04% of a billionaire's net worth means that you're equally culpable. Never mind if, say, you're doing it so you can provide for your parents or extended family that lives near the poverty line... Please don't equate working in a system with not also simulatenously wanting the system to drastically change.
- caeril 5y ago
  All I'm saying is that if you're doing logistics accounting for gas canisters in 1943 Germany in order to "provide for your parents", that's fine, I get it. But you're not in a moral position to complain about the atrocities going on at Birkenau. You've made your choice that your parents' comfort is more important than some people's lives. You do your job, and maybe you do it with a heavy sense of personal shame. But you don't get to publicly bloviate about how horrible the machine is whilst you're actively working to help it function.
  - Causality1 5y ago
    Ok, so other people who do different things from me would be hypocrites if they tried to make the same points I'm making. That's entirely true, such as the idiotic moral posturing of Google employees who throw tantrums at the idea of taking money from the DoD while also doing their best to figure out who's pregnant before they themselves know it. I just don't see how it's a relevant response to my position on billionaires.

by caeril 5y ago

malcolmgreaves 5y ago

Yes because getting a salary of 0.04% of a billionaire's net worth means that you're equally culpable. Never mind if, say, you're doing it so you can provide for your parents or extended family that lives near the poverty line... Please don't equate working in a system with not also simulatenously wanting the system to drastically change.

caeril 5y ago
All I'm saying is that if you're doing logistics accounting for gas canisters in 1943 Germany in order to "provide for your parents", that's fine, I get it. But you're not in a moral position to complain about the atrocities going on at Birkenau. You've made your choice that your parents' comfort is more important than some people's lives. You do your job, and maybe you do it with a heavy sense of personal shame. But you don't get to publicly bloviate about how horrible the machine is whilst you're actively working to help it function.
- Causality1 5y ago
  Ok, so other people who do different things from me would be hypocrites if they tried to make the same points I'm making. That's entirely true, such as the idiotic moral posturing of Google employees who throw tantrums at the idea of taking money from the DoD while also doing their best to figure out who's pregnant before they themselves know it. I just don't see how it's a relevant response to my position on billionaires.