> TLDR it's not "damning" -- geeks inside Google are much the same as geeks outside. They're just taking a paycheck. Without pretending to know enough about t

> TLDR it's not "damning" -- geeks inside Google are much the same as geeks outside. They're just taking a paycheck. Without pretending to know enough about the circumstances of any individual person, I hope you can come to see how this description encompasses both "bad" and "good" (or at least "excusable") conduct. There is some line, which is difficult to see and controversial, where one can no longer justify their work by saying they are just a cog in a machine. We can talk about that line and that line is clearly different for different people (do they need the money, do they support others, how easily could they leave, etc). Asking people to account for the machine they are working for is a fair and normal social act and we should all be reflecting on it.