[throw5399375930]

I hate the double standards in our society. We have people who actually work in the "killing people" industry. We call it "the military", and whenever one of them says they identify as a member, we tell them "thanks for your service", not "hey, do you think your org is evil?". We honor them before sports events. We make the president the CEO of the killing people industry, FFS. And these people are unquestionably, explicitly in the "invading countries and killing people" industry.

So are you seriously asking people who work in tech companies that spread cat videos and enable video chats if their companies are "evil"? With a straight face? Come on.

This thinking betrays both that people in the industry take themselves far too seriously, and that we're so brainwashed to accept these kind of glaring double standards, we don't even stop for a second to question them.

[fdeage]

It might be because tech companies had been trying so hard to look like "the good guys" in the past 20 years. So it might just have something to do with that.

Also, the moral problems arising from having a military force have been studied for centuries, so nothing new here. It doesn't mean we cannot be critical of the military at the same time (and it's not all bad either btw).

Finally, the tech industry has a huge power on us. This power is rising every day, and has been invisible to most until recently. So questioning its morals, intentions and agenda today matters.

[mav3rick]

If you're not happy with tech, feel free to not join a tech company or not use tech at all. The problem with people here is "FAANG" is evil "but I love their services and want their really high comp".

[sneak]

> We honor them before sports events.

FYI: they buy that, with tax dollars. Same way they get editorial control over hollywood movies in which military hardware is featured.

It’s part of the advertising budget. It’s no accident that these mass events seem to be widely aligned with the military. It’s an explicit taxpayer-funded propaganda campaign.

That said, the military and private surveillance companies can both do evil, and their evils can indeed synergize: tech databases can be used to determine who to mass murder, e.g. Palantir, or PRISM, resulting in more murder and terror than without the tech involved.

[93po]

Google doesn't directly murder people so it can't be evil. Got it.