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by d82nsjk9 1560 days ago
Sure. But do you think that, say, Tesla is as horrible as Facebook? i.e. electric cars are as horrible as advertisement?
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I don’t see much value in comparing random companies across verticals, but I’ll bite.

Tesla is a luxury electric car company that is dependant on a very immoral supply chain to procure various raw materials, for their cars and batteries, i.e. pretty much everything. Of course, nobody cares about the hidden blood/slavery inherent to their supply chain.

Facebook is a social media company, that billions of people use and enjoy, while being monetised by ads (attention). It has been used as a “weapon” to create radical parties and subvert democratic process - but at a larger global scale than traditional press media could achieve.

Not everything is cut and dry, and most mainstream opinions are manufactured by the global media. Why /did/ we all collectively forget about every other industry than tech? Because the media is being replaced by social networks, and they’re facing an existential crisis, so they respond with biased coverage. Think hard about that!

Why is Tesla intrinsically better? Is it because Elon Musk hangs out with Joe Rogan?

Tesla is as toxic as any FAANG. Every Tesla employee I've talked to has been treated worse than I get treated at AWS.