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I'd work for a company that had done bad stuff if I'm not contributing to it - even better if its providing an alternative path to profitability that may reduce
by vineyardmike 5y ago
I'd work for a company that had done bad stuff if I'm not contributing to it - even better if its providing an alternative path to profitability that may reduce reliance on their "dirty" money. This seems like a desperate ploy to find "another thing" for Facebook to escape their past/present - and they should move on from it.
Few companies are benevolent and have never done something wrong. Apple and the CSAM is only the latest bad story for them. Google and privacy and dragonfly. Amazon and warehouse workers. Facebook and... Facebook. Microsoft and antitrust/EEE.
- lrvick 5y agoYes. And we should all stop writing code for any of those companies. They will -always- do whatever the most profitable thing is, users be damned. They are machines that generate money. The only internet services that ever have a chance of putting the best interests of users first are open source decentralized ones.
- vineyardmike 5y ago> we should all stop writing code for any of those companies. > The only internet services that ever have a chance of putting the best interests of users first are open source decentralized ones. This isn't really a practical advice. Most "open source decentralized [companies]" aren't profitable enough to pay a salary for all these engineers - even at a lower rate than they make. Also, every company is a machine that generates money. That isn't inherently so bad we should abandon all businesses.