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by awak3ning 2044 days ago
This post sheds light on a very simple but important age old lesson. Judge people by what they do, and not what they say.

While corporations like FaceBook would purport to have liberal values, in reality they hold these beliefs only insofar as it furthers their own financial well-being. While the elites in this company seek to concentrate wealth and power, those at the bottom receive scorn and poor working conditions. Image having to work such an emotionally draining job, and not being given the mere dignity of being a full-time employee.

This sounds rather dehumanizing in my view. You are just there for labor, and they will do everything they can to minimize the amount of monetary value that they provide to you. This means humane working conditions, inclusion, respect, and psychological support and are all liabilities for them.

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It's not just the corporations and the elites. It's the people working at these companies, and that includes many HN contributors.

Would they vote en masse to form a Union to stop these issues arising in the first place? Personally I doubt it.

It seems to me that many people are happy to take the large pay check every day, and see themselves as "the good guys" (as everyone does) because they donated to Biden and attended a BLM march or put pronouns in their bio.

Yet the homeless problem outside their front door never seems to get better, and they have terribly paid and horribly treated people working in their own company, and they seem (from the outside at least) to be doing very little about it.

Of course Facebook is just one of many companies with the same problems. And the political Left abandoned the working class a long time ago. It's a systemic issue.

The diagnosis of the fact that it is a systemic issue is certainly accurate in my eyes. We need a system of incentives that would make the class of people that you identify as "HN contributors" to feel that the cost of their cowardice and complicity is greater than the affluence and power that they obtain by going along with the system that they are beneficiaries of.