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You seem to be taking the company's words at face value and assuming good faith. I would caution against doing that.
by idle_zealot 8mo ago
You seem to be taking the company's words at face value and assuming good faith. I would caution against doing that.
- riversflow 8mo agoAmazing how often people do that. Corporations have very little incentive to be truthful and often have good reason to be dishonest. I notice it particularly wrt video games, gamers are always taking studio’s messaging as gospel and not corporate comms.
- direwolf20 8mo agoAnd with Elon Musk! If he says we're going to Mars, then we're going to Mars. If he says full self driving next year, we're getting full self driving next year. He said that every year for 10 years? So what?
- ponector 8mo agoI see this all the time at work. Folks treat their relationship with employer like a personal relationship. Be loyal to company and it will be loyal to you. But everyone lies. Your managers will stab you in the back and throw to the ditch anytime they can gain something from it.
- andwur 8mo agoOne needs to only witness an exec team or board meeting to realise that loyalty as a concept doesn't exist at the top for the vast majority of companies. You're 1.8% of the accounts department budget, or 0.02% of the head office budget. Which is looking a bit high in the face of our projected earnings this quarter. Best get HR to trim that by 10% to free up some cashflow for sales and initiatives. Actually, make that 20%. Bonuses were a bit thin last round and I need a new yacht.
- anshumankmr 8mo agoGaming companies can be pretty stupid at communications honestly.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Battlefront_II_(2017_video_game)#%22Pride_and_accomplishment%22_comment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Battlefront_II_(2017...
- SecretDreams 8mo agoLook, Amazon has our best interest at heart, alright? Surely they're not working on this still in the background.
- crazygringo 8mo agoAt the end of day, Amazon is a business, not an extension of the police or the FBI. They initially partnered with Flock because they thought this would be a feature people would want. They literally bought a crazy expensive Super Bowl ad to show it off. Turns out people didn't. So now they're not doing it. Amazon's only interest is to make money.
- SecretDreams 8mo ago> Amazon's only interest is to make money And they make more money when they're on the right side of whatever gov du jour is running America.
- nerdponx 8mo agoOr when the gov du jour is for sale, they can do whatever they want because they and their CEO can afford just about any price.
- AlecSchueler 8mo agoI took it more as holding them to their actual words and highlighting how they weaseled on the obvious ethical concerns and fear over backlash.
- pseudohadamard 8mo agoIn particular, they can publicly walk back their position now and then quietly reintroduce it later when the fuss has died down.