My feeling is that your diagnosis is spot-on. But I don't know enough about organizational psychology to know whether such a thing is really possible. I suppos

My feeling is that your diagnosis is spot-on. But I don't know enough about organizational psychology to know whether such a thing is really possible. I suppose that logically if one of the google founders had a similar approach to dealing with privacy and data collection, naturally they would hire and attract people with similar attitudes. I've seen from google employees a general sense of emotional detachment and even contempt of their own customers that I haven't seen in other successful tech companies... it's as if they're not really dealing with fellow human beings. It's no wonder that they haven't been successful with creating meaningful social services. On an institutional level, they just don't get or even respect how normal people think. Too bad for them...