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Wrote about this 4 years ago in Digital Vegan, that Big Tech would eventually face a recruitment crisis. This has nothing to do with economic slowdown, it's to
by nonrandomstring 3y ago
Wrote about this 4 years ago in Digital Vegan, that Big Tech would
eventually face a recruitment crisis. This has nothing to do with
economic slowdown, it's to do with ethics. The reputation of Big Tech
is dirt now.
People no longer want to be part of things they see as making the
world a worse place. Sadly it also affects things like policing and
intelligence work, so we get a vicious cycle of good people who could
make a difference being discouraged from entering fields where human
judgement is vital, and so more of those roles are filled by
algorithms. At some point we will have to step back from abusive
technologies and realise that humans will not so willingly collude in
their own alienation.
Question for downvoters: if technology is getting a PR problem what
are we going to do about it other than trying to silence anyone who
says it?
- downrightmike 3y agoNo, the story covers the lack of perks and then layoffs, not really about the desire to do non evil work, the example guy Michael now works in big finance, which isn't any less evil, just an older evil
- nonrandomstring 3y agoThat's what the BBC story says. But I'm arguing that their analysis is wrong and simplistic. Discuss.
- downrightmike 3y agoBased on our long history, including colonization, people will do just about anything for money. Morals are nice, but have no value if you're starving, or have something to gain.
- nonrandomstring 3y agoBut we're not starving. I hope you're not. I'm not. We're living in great times. So we have the luxury of not behaving like animals towards each other, right? So I'm saying we can do much more to demand ethics of work-life, now we're not reduced to base necessity and penury?