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FTA: ...what has been a very hard three weeks for my team. I think /u/urda's comment in another thread[0] feels appropriate: "Every employee and Engineer that
by delgaudm 5y ago
FTA: ...what has been a very hard three weeks for my team.
I think /u/urda's comment in another thread[0] feels appropriate:
"Every employee and Engineer that is currently at Facebook is involved in this mess. Every one of them are complicit. To the FB Engineers reading this: it is a saddening you have chosen to use your talents to build dangerous technologies instead of technologies that improve our lives." [1]
[0] Specifically: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28804729 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28804729
[1] Contained within this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28804173 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28804173
- ironmagma 5y agoAscribing blame for a company’s actions to its employees is questionable. They play a small role, for sure, but much more culpable are the shareholders and executives.
- JohnFen 5y agoI agree to a point. However, employees do at least have to acknowledge that if they choose to work for, or stay at, a bad company then they get some blame as well. If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.
- ironmagma 5y agoAgreed to a point. Choosing where you work is a luxury however. In the software world, or at least, in the VC-funded software world, we are spoiled with an abundance of mobility. The same is not true for many other verticals and probably most other industries.
- milliondollar 5y agoNazi prison guards of our algorithm world war.
- ironmagma 5y agoCan you think of any major differences between a positions of public office and an executive at a private company?