Don't respect their history. They made their poor workers show up in their suits and sock suspenders and sing patriotic, hagiographic odes to their executives,

Don't respect their history. They made their poor workers show up in their suits and sock suspenders and sing patriotic, hagiographic odes to their executives, while those same executives carefully worked out ways to sneak around regulations to become top vendors of both the US and Germany during WW2. If Google had a mandatory assembly to sing "praise be to Sundar Pichai, the most thoughtful and wise of us all," we'd rightfully drag them through the mud for it, just as we're right to drag IBM retroactively. A lot of the good IBM did came in the early 2000s when they were still powerful but flailing wildly, almost accidentally going all in on open source, and creating truly amazing ads around it. Look at how good this ad was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJgo3BBgWDA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJgo3BBgWDA