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I wonder what level of cognitive dissonance one must live with to work for a surveillance capitalist company while constantly taking activist stances against wh
by yosito 5y ago
I wonder what level of cognitive dissonance one must live with to work for a surveillance capitalist company while constantly taking activist stances against which customers that company works with.
- inglor_cz 5y agoThis is already acquired at a university, where "soak the rich" and "corporate greed" is unironically used - at an institution that hikes tuition prices all the time and whose constant appetite for squeezing more money from students and parents alike significantly contributed to the stagnation of middle class life standards in America. The difference between Google and Uni is that Google pays you, though. As such, the employees will find that their superiors are much harder nuts to crack.
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- indy 5y agoIf you work, socialize and live with the same set of people then this cognitive dissonance becomes easy. Group reinforcement is a hell of a drug
- swarnie 5y agoI've always wondered how META employees justify their work, funnily enough they never seem to answer when asked, they just downvote to hide the question and move on.
- MiguelX413 5y agowhat does META mean?
- yosito 5y agoMeta means you haven't been on the internet in the last few weeks.
- joelbluminator 5y agoWhich is good probably
- swarnie 5y agoMeta Platforms, Inc The name Facebook are now using to distance themselves from insurrections, mental torment and the occasional genocide.
- MiguelX413 5y agoOhhhhhhhhhhhhh, its full capitalization made me think it was an abbreviation a la FAMANG. Thank you.
- thinkingemote 5y agoWhenever I say this to my FFANG acquaintances they say "don't let perfect be the enemy of good". I think they love the money too much. Love blinds. But there's also some truth that it's shades of grey. Tech has improved lives after all.