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Even if their technology is often very nice, the mere idea of working for Google or Meta, or just being in a company they would acquire, sends shivers down my s
by csdvrx 3y ago
Even if their technology is often very nice, the mere idea of working for Google or Meta, or just being in a company they would acquire, sends shivers down my spine. The rare few bad people are used as plausible deniability to create a technical dystopia.
I care more about tech than anything else, but here the moral bad outweighs the good.
I wonder if that's how people felt 30 years ago about Microsoft, or before that time about IBM?
- flashback2199 3y agoIt's sad that you are getting punished for asking about something real. How many smart people who would have otherwise worked in software are currently choosing to go in other directions as this industry descends into totalitarianism?
- csdvrx 3y agoI've thought about that question for myself and I think I morally couldn't do that. If it was about money, I think I would prefer to work for a financial company, or even a crypto one: even if you believe they're doing "bad" (for political reasons, environmental reasons - take your pick), at least this "bad" is done at a local scale and is self-limiting, instead of creating the building blocks for a technical dystopia.