It was offered as a subsidized perk during my days as a Google employee. The social aspect of other people at Google doing it made it feel normal. In hindsigh

It was offered as a subsidized perk during my days as a Google employee. The social aspect of other people at Google doing it made it feel normal. In hindsight, I drank the Google kool-aid in more ways then one. The sentiment of distrust towards tech companies and tech companies being yet-another-corporation is really only obvious in recent years. It wasn't the case a decade ago when we were busy being judgemental of Wall Street. Ironically, now it seems that Wall Street is more trustworthy because, at the very least, they are forthrite about their motive to make profit instead of all these lies about "changing the world".