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Money? We can only vote with our wallets and that's what we should do. Should we support all shitty companies and, dare I say, regimes employing people just bec
by karolist 3y ago
Money? We can only vote with our wallets and that's what we should do. Should we support all shitty companies and, dare I say, regimes employing people just because of "but think of the salaried employees" line? You know history is full of examples where a mass of people worked for some evil entity willingly because the system is structured around short term rewards and not looking at the big picture.
edit: I didn't downvote you either, I don't use downvote as "I do not agree" button
- latchkey 3y agoI don't find Amazon to be a shitty company though. I get a lot of value from their services. When I was living in Vietnam, I greatly missed the convenience of ordering something and having it appear in a day or two. Given their size, it seems I'm not the only one. I'd say that one person getting fired also falls into the anecdotal realm that primarily serves to give loud voices a forum.
- karolist 3y agoAmazon is super evil, I appreciate you find value in their services, this can be true and the company can still be evil though. It leeches off opensource, it actively fights against employee rights, it copies most successful products in their marketplace and competes against them. Do you care enough so I should search sources to back these claims?
- latchkey 3y agoI've been doing open source for 30 years now, I co-founded Java @ Apache. My code or something I touched, is probably in almost every server they operate. If I cared that Amazon might "leech" off my open source, I wouldn't have open sourced it. As for the rest, I don't believe that a boycott will have any effect on their practices. I believe that change is better effected from within.
- karolist 3y agoImpressive credentials, pleased to have had this short discourse with you, even though I disagree I am proud this evening, have a nice day