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Google/Facebook employees: do something good for civilisation and quit your jobs. There are plenty of employers out there where you can create something real an

Google/Facebook employees: do something good for civilisation and quit your jobs. There are plenty of employers out there where you can create something real and positive.

hazelnut 5y ago
Google/FB strategy to keep their employees quite is to throw money at them. It works for the majority.
hirako2000 5y ago
I think many of the top employees already are. they have no worries finding alternative employers. it would be even better if it turns out that average to mediocre is all there is left.
sebow 5y ago
This is a solution but not really a long-term one.Google/FB/Apple can already de facto buy less principled people or foreigners and also buy them citizenships to work for them.90%+ of the time such individuals who take these deals won't give a shit about principles[There are cases when they do, and often these outliers become leakers when booted out,but for the vast majority of cases this does not happen], given that it's obvious the motive(money) for such a move. This is not an argument or a talking point against immigration, or importing workforce, what I'm saying is that by doing this and (at least) not reforming companies(or better: shut them down), you effectively empower these corporations to be even less-principled and the pressure from employers becomes smaller.Now theoretically this can be curbed by the government, but there are a few problems here: you cannot do this and think you can remain competitive as a global power;such policies are very unpopular in US;FAANG companies can easily lobby and overthrown this(they already probably did and do this) policy; So the solution imo has to be a bottom->up one: pressuring the company internally, though this rarely works in practice.Google has become more transparent (even if a facade) in the latest years towards the average user.But at the same time it has engaged in shady projects for the military that are very concerning,so who knows what's going on.

Google/Facebook employees: do something good for civilisation and quit your jobs. There are plenty of employers out there where you can create something real and positive.

hazelnut 5y ago

Google/FB strategy to keep their employees quite is to throw money at them. It works for the majority.

hirako2000 5y ago

I think many of the top employees already are. they have no worries finding alternative employers. it would be even better if it turns out that average to mediocre is all there is left.

sebow 5y ago

This is a solution but not really a long-term one.Google/FB/Apple can already de facto buy less principled people or foreigners and also buy them citizenships to work for them.90%+ of the time such individuals who take these deals won't give a shit about principles[There are cases when they do, and often these outliers become leakers when booted out,but for the vast majority of cases this does not happen], given that it's obvious the motive(money) for such a move. This is not an argument or a talking point against immigration, or importing workforce, what I'm saying is that by doing this and (at least) not reforming companies(or better: shut them down), you effectively empower these corporations to be even less-principled and the pressure from employers becomes smaller.Now theoretically this can be curbed by the government, but there are a few problems here: you cannot do this and think you can remain competitive as a global power;such policies are very unpopular in US;FAANG companies can easily lobby and overthrown this(they already probably did and do this) policy; So the solution imo has to be a bottom->up one: pressuring the company internally, though this rarely works in practice.Google has become more transparent (even if a facade) in the latest years towards the average user.But at the same time it has engaged in shady projects for the military that are very concerning,so who knows what's going on.