Human Brain EnthusiastWhat’s in it for people who work for the big tech companies who enable one morally bankrupt thing after another for decades on end just to make the billionaire owners richer?
Is that truly fulfilling work?
I get “job security” or whatever (which you don’t actually have by the way), but working for these companies for years?
Something is wrong with you.
Please note I don’t mean this in a snarky “yet you work under capitalism lol” way.
I specifically mean big tech (like Microsoft, Google or Meta) and staying there for years without even looking for another job.
You can make choices for your life.
Sean@thomasfuchs big tech pays way above market rate, and people like to live in the most expensive cities. There's a bimodal distribution of tech jobs: a lot of high-paying big tech jobs where you suffer the cognitive dissonance of working for big tech, a tiny number of jobs with positive social impact while still having good pay, and a large number of jobs with sub-par pay but at least aren't evil
@thomasfuchs most people aren't skilled and lucky enough to get the few jobs in the middle, so they opt for high pay and cognitive dissonance if they're skilled (or experts at those kind of interviews), or average pay if they're not
Russell@seanlinsley @thomasfuchs Case in point: https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/116224697908815655
If you want to do less evil you might assume nonprofit, but there's plenty of controversy that can happen there too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_G._Komen_for_the_Cure#Controversy_and_criticism Plus the pay usually sucks, "sacrifice for the cause" or some-such. Mom-and-pop operations aren't automatically egalitarian, or are actually more chaotic and disfavourable.
Adrianna Tan (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Why don’t people want to work at nonprofits? I have thoughts.
✧✦Catherine✦✧@seanlinsley @thomasfuchs don't forget "a job at a small company that claims to be doing good but is in fact abusive". after wasting my 20s on that (including ghosting a Google recruiter and once telling a Meta recruiter all but to fuck off), I'm not so sure I picked the right choices. how much of your health have you, Thomas, personally left at the door?
@whitequark @seanlinsley I’ve had very bad experiences too with small companies, nevertheless I never chose to work or stay somewhere that did things I couldn’t ethically support
Amin Girasol@thomasfuchs @whitequark @seanlinsley I'm sure you've learned that the more a company bangs on about how ethical they are, the less ethical they are in fact.