[vladsiv]

> There are limits to how much of a good person you can be, those limits are set by the economic system we exist in.

> you should be upset about the system that is requiring those persons to act this way in order to stay afloat.

How would you change the system or modify the current situation in order to define new limits that are more, let's say, humane?

In the article, there is an example of an ex-Google employee that got fired via email, he couldn't say "Bye" to his colleagues after 20 years of working with them. That doesn't seem like a system with reasonable limits.

[kortilla]

> In the article, there is an example of an ex-Google employee that got fired via email, he couldn't say "Bye" to his colleagues after 20 years of working with them. That doesn't seem like a system with reasonable limits.

Until there is a system to easily weed out the people that go ballistic when being laid off, cutting off access is completely fine.

If you want to keep in touch with people outside of work, exchange personal emails.

[Aeolun]

> Until there is a system to easily weed out the people that go ballistic when being laid off, cutting off access is completely fine.

There’s literally whole continents where this isn’t an issue. If it is an issue in yours the problem is not the layoffs.

[anal_reactor]

> Until there is a system to easily weed out the people that go ballistic when being laid off, cutting off access is completely fine.

Until there is a system to easily weed out the people who carry dynamite in their asses, anal cavity checks are completely fine.

[Aeolun]

That’s an oddly appropriate username.

[cjfd]

"How would you change the system" is an above human level question. Winston Churchill said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. The same for capitalism. It is an illusion that it is easy to change a system in which millions of people participate.

The economic forces as painted here are very real but cruelty is optional. It is not very expensive to give an employee the time to say goodbye to colleagues.

[hnbad]

> Winston Churchill said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Sure but he had a good reason to conflate all forms of democracy as if there were no difference between them or ways to give more power to the people in, say, UK's form of democracy. Replacing first-past-the-post voting for example wouldn't require abandoning the entire system of government.

> The same for capitalism.

Sure but again there are important differences between laissez faire capitalism and a social market economy and yet this is used to justify reforming the latter into closer and closer approximations of the former. This also ignores that while the economy at large is clearly some form of "capitalism", communities otherwise operate on more non-capitalist patterns of behavior (e.g. buying rounds at the bar among friends, borrowing tools to your neighbors, BYOBs/potlucks).

Even interactions involving currency (remember markets and currency alone don't define capitalism) don't have to be transactional or profit optimized or be defined in terms of ownership and servitude. Of course things like the gig economy, consumerism and "hustle culture" are built around "capitalism"-ifying those non-capitalist interactions by reframing them as transactional or business opportunities - the most blatant example probably being the widely ridiculed genre of blog post a la "what breaking up with my partner taught me about being a hiring manager".