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What about Google do you think makes working there comparable to pushing drugs? Legitimately curious.

• hulitu 4y ago
  No respect for the end user from both. Google only cares about your data.
  • saagarjha 4y ago
    No respect for the end user? Drug dealers can be some of the realest people out there :)
  • entropy47 4y ago
    This chain is pretty wild to me. I don't know if I'm just too pragmatic, too close to people whose lives have been ruined by drugs, or too much of a big tech apologist - but it seems impossible to me to draw any parallel between drug dealing and working at Google. And I'm just talking ethically - to say nothing of legally. Maybe I'm a consequentialist and you're more of a deontologist? I see a big distinction between "I lost my money, my home and eventually my life" and "I feel my privacy has been infringed on at a conceptual level in the pursuit of ad sales". Do you think there are Google products out there that are actually harmful and ruining people's lives in a concrete way? I would love to hear about how, if yes. The other interpretation is you have a much higher estimation of drug dealers than I do. No dramas with people dealing pot or pills, I'm talking meth and heroin.
    • version_five 4y ago
      "Drug dealers" are the result of regulatory failure - the war on drugs, and a failure of government to provide proper healthcare. People want drugs - no doubt there are some unscrupulous, or evil drug dealers, but it's certainly not a question of some evil cabal poisoning society, it's rational market actors working to meet a demand. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
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