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You’re wrong, as a staunch advocate of free speech on the web and as a near victim of cancel culture I would gladly work at twitter as long as I were paid more

by xwdv 4y ago

You’re wrong, as a staunch advocate of free speech on the web and as a near victim of cancel culture I would gladly work at twitter as long as I were paid more than what I earn now, and I’m sure many people would feel the same. Twitter was already a crappy place to work before Elon with all its woke polítics, now though it may become more tolerable.

TSiege 4y ago
The people I know working there don't say anything like that
scarface74 4y ago
That’s very anecdotal. You’re not going to get the best engineers who could get a job anywhere giving up much better compensation because of “idealism”
rideontime 4y ago
"as long as I were paid more than what I earn now" is such a funny term to include. There's a lot of places I'd consider working if they offered me a raise!
- scarface74 4y ago
  Since I go to work exclusively to exchange labor for money, if, most other things being equal, I can find a job that allows me to exchange more money for the same amount of labor, who wouldn’t I be looking for another job anyway? Working for Twitter in 2022 sounds about as exciting as working for Yahoo as it was going through the same type of turmoil.
philosopher1234 4y ago
Wow cancel culture almost got you huh? How did the doctors save you?
- eatsyourtacos 4y ago
  Well this is his profile >Ethically challenged software engineer working for a major tech company you know. Used to have close to 1000 karma, got destroyed over time by hackernews cancel culture and a change in downvote algorithms. But now that the algorithm has been changed back to classic style, I'm rising up again. The doctors are indeed worried about his karma count. It's dropped a lot because he is ethically challenged. But it's sounds like the doctors are working hard to bring that karma count back up.
  - UncleMeat 4y ago
    I like how the bar for "cancel culture" is so low that getting downvotes on hackernews counts. The horror.
  - Sohcahtoa82 4y ago
    Wew lad. Referring to yourself as "ethically challenged"? Complaining about cancel culture? That profile just reeks of "WHY CAN'T I SAY THE N-WORD!?"

by xwdv 4y ago

TSiege 4y ago

The people I know working there don't say anything like that

scarface74 4y ago

That’s very anecdotal. You’re not going to get the best engineers who could get a job anywhere giving up much better compensation because of “idealism”

rideontime 4y ago

"as long as I were paid more than what I earn now" is such a funny term to include. There's a lot of places I'd consider working if they offered me a raise!

scarface74 4y ago
Since I go to work exclusively to exchange labor for money, if, most other things being equal, I can find a job that allows me to exchange more money for the same amount of labor, who wouldn’t I be looking for another job anyway? Working for Twitter in 2022 sounds about as exciting as working for Yahoo as it was going through the same type of turmoil.

philosopher1234 4y ago

Wow cancel culture almost got you huh? How did the doctors save you?

eatsyourtacos 4y ago
Well this is his profile >Ethically challenged software engineer working for a major tech company you know. Used to have close to 1000 karma, got destroyed over time by hackernews cancel culture and a change in downvote algorithms. But now that the algorithm has been changed back to classic style, I'm rising up again. The doctors are indeed worried about his karma count. It's dropped a lot because he is ethically challenged. But it's sounds like the doctors are working hard to bring that karma count back up.
- UncleMeat 4y ago
  I like how the bar for "cancel culture" is so low that getting downvotes on hackernews counts. The horror.
- Sohcahtoa82 4y ago
  Wew lad. Referring to yourself as "ethically challenged"? Complaining about cancel culture? That profile just reeks of "WHY CAN'T I SAY THE N-WORD!?"