[genxy]

This is the same way you get people to do bad stuff as well. Make the task small enough so that the moral curvature of the topology is flat and even though they know it is a not-good part of a larger bad part they just shrug. Look at all the wonderful people we know who are working at Amazon and Meta? Corporatism has already jailbroken society.

[defen]

IIRC that is how Uber implemented their "Greyball" system, which was designed to prevent government employees from actually hailing rides, without completely locking them out of the system (same idea as "shadowbanning"). One team works on "figure out where people work" with the pitch that you can improve routing and ride-share capacity for predictable demand. Another team works on "Display fake data to users" with the pitch being "This is for testing the mobile app in new markets with no drivers yet". Another team works on "mark a user as unable to successfully hail rides" so you can test the failure paths in the app. Then, only the people at the top have the full picture and can put the pieces together to shadowban the regulators.

[lacker]

I don't think people working at Amazon "know that it is a part of a larger bad", it's one of the most trusted American institutions.

https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/why-everyone-loves-amazon

[throwawaytea]

You really don't think know they are selling endless counterfeit products? Don't know they are taking part in massive return fraud against small sellers? You don't think they know they totally ignore sellers with problems even if their livelihood depends on it?