malloreon

Joined 17 years ago

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technology workers enjoy an unprecedented amount of freedom in where they choose to work - the causes or injustices that your employer endorses or perpetuates become your own. If you didn't agree with them, you'd work somewhere else.

Or if you continue to work for an employer that believes in or perpetuates hurting people or enables others to hurt people, at least admit to yourself that the delta in compensation is all that's required for you to compromise what ethics you thought you had.

Currently:

iOS at Autodesk

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Comment · 5 years ago

Unless Carmack doesn’t have the ability to quit, he’s choosing to continue working for Zuck every day.

As is every other fb employee.

Comment · 5 years ago

Spare some disdain for the people who choose to work for him.

They deserve it: they commit the evil for far smaller a payoff.

Comment · 5 years ago

I wonder if facebook employees really think they paper over the harm they do each day by renaming their company.

if you call it something else does it still hurt people?

Comment · 5 years ago

Can’t read the article, but did they quit the company when their pleas didn’t work?

If not, they changed their opinion and now support/accept their employer’s decision or decided the issue wasn’t that important.

Comment · 5 years ago

45,000 fb employees choose every day to work for him. The responsibility for what fb is is just as much theirs.

If they didn’t agree with fb’s actions they’d leave.

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28 malloreon 5 years ago 4 comments

Comment · 5 years ago

100% true.

If a software engineer writes software that hurts people, they believe in hurting people and believe people should be hurt.

If they didn’t, they wouldn’t write software that hurts people.

The impressive amount of freedom tech workers have to choose what they work on means the ethical and moral issues with their production should fall on each person’s shoulders, but it doesn’t.

Comment · 5 years ago

FB is what it is because 45,000 employees work hard daily to make it that way.

if they weren't satisfied with how it works or what it does, they'd fix it or they'd leave. every day they continue to work there without changing direction, they vote with their time that FB is doing what it ought to be doing.

all of the responsibility for FB's effects on the world belongs to them.

Comment · 5 years ago

I'd like to try this if there was an option to do so without giving Facebook money.

Comment · 5 years ago

If Facebook employees weren’t happy with the product they spend so much of their time shaping and building they’d leave.

Comment · 5 years ago

Blast from the past!

My good friend Daniel Horn started developing this right around when I met him in high school.

Comment · 5 years ago

Everyone on this page spends a lotta words saying Facebook is evil while ignoring that 40,000 employees work hard every day to make it that evil.

Facebook doesn’t exist in its current form without their tireless efforts.

Comment · 5 years ago