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I think about this a lot and many times I feel it is impractical to expect your company to visibly demonstrate moral ground that you can be proud of as an emplo

I think about this a lot and many times I feel it is impractical to expect your company to visibly demonstrate moral ground that you can be proud of as an employee. I work at Netflix and I am happy here. Curious if any of you would consider it to be an evil company in the sense we are discussing in this post.

pbhjpbhj 4y ago
Netflix seems pretty neutral to me, but it's like an obese person's feeder, it enables self-harm to some extent (it seems all streaming services do). There are things that IMO could make it good, most involve encouraging users to use it less, ... now if Netflix's _goals_ include engaging viewers beyond what is healthy (rather than viewers using neutral features in that way), then that is evil. Two quick things, as a user, I would change about Netflix: 1) More childrens' content with actual people in. It's all cartoons (cheaper) whilst I hypothesise children develop better viewing real human interactions. 2) At account level build in breaks. It used to be adverts would provide a break that would encourage at least some movement and offer a chance to go off and be distracted (for adults and children alike). I'd love to say "minimum 10 minute break between episodes"; the screen would go off and only restart if interacted with after 10 minutes ... some will say "just have some will power", but IMO tech should help us with such things. Mind you, I'd also change copyright law to allow any service to stream content of one service does (no exclusives except for a limited time; forced syndication, effectively) in order to create competition and choice at the service level rather than the content level.