Imagine having a workforce so docile that when an employee quits on principle, they get profiled in the Washington Posthttps://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/09/08/facebook-employee-quit-racism/ …
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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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Pinboard @PinboardThis CNN business article claims that "worker activism is reaching a fever pitch" but describes the opposite—how vocal organizers took a large severance payment from Google and moved on to lucrative (and presumably more fulfilling) jobs elsewhere. https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/01/tech/google-walkout-one-year-later-risk-takers/index.html …Show this thread3 replies 14 retweets 46 likesShow this thread -
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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We guess we should take it as a compliment that you've moved on to baiting Facebook employees rather than Googlers. ;)
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