I've written before about the "evaporative cooling" model of tech monopoly activism. It's a win both for the departing activist employees (who get attention and land on their feet) and for the company, which can continue its worst behaviors unimpededhttps://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1190343423208804352 …
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The test is concerted, collective action. Can Facebook or any other tech monopoly employees act together in the pursuit of an ethical goal, making use of their enormous leverage to achieve a concrete objective? Yes, they can, in theory. Will they? Never in a million years.
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If you work at Facebook and my dismissal of your internal efforts upsets you, make an angry meme! You'll feel better.
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Exponential growth in people quitting Facebook on principle!:https://twitter.com/mikeisaac/status/1304184279325270017 …
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Do you think tech workers could unionize?
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I think AI is likely to unionize before tech workers do
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Tech workers collide with the companies to charge rent on their monopolies is the way I look at it.
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I meant collude. But I kind of like collide.
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Anyone else see the parallels between tech companies and this administration vis a vis "evaporative cooling"? And why it's not always so helpful to prefer good people leave?
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