Tech workers are frustrated by their companies silence about ICE(theverge.com)
theverge.com
Tech workers are frustrated by their companies silence about ICE
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/876558/tech-workers-ice-resistance-google-microsoft-clear-abbott
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> The question is: what do they expect those companies to do?
All companies (not just tech companies) always comply with whoever is currently in charge. A business just cannot operate without complying with the law.
People tend to forget that, and also people ultimately tend to pick the fat paycheck over the ideals.
It's an ironical recurrence: tech workers complain loud and often but they're still there everyday implementing and optimizing the same "nightmare" they complain about.
All companies (not just tech companies) always comply with whoever is currently in charge. A business just cannot operate without complying with the law.
People tend to forget that, and also people ultimately tend to pick the fat paycheck over the ideals.
It's an ironical recurrence: tech workers complain loud and often but they're still there everyday implementing and optimizing the same "nightmare" they complain about.
> tech workers complain loud and often but they're still there everyday implementing and optimizing the same "nightmare" they complain about.
Of all the hypocrisies that are common in our industry, it's this one that I find the most offensive.
Of all the hypocrisies that are common in our industry, it's this one that I find the most offensive.
“The fact that I was not prepared to resist, in 1935, meant that all the thousands, hundreds of thousands, like me in Germany were also unprepared, and each one of these hundreds of thousands was, like me, a man of great influence or of great potential influence. Thus the world was lost.”
― Milton Sanford Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45
Nobody cares, you get wage-squeezed by AI, you can be glad you are at least not wage-squeezed by HB1.
As usual, i'd take this kind of articles with the proverbial grain of salt. There always are a number of workers that are frustrated and very vocal about that, and a number of workers that are not frustrated at all but aren't vocal about it.
Media has a tendency to exaggerate one of the two numbers.
But which one is the largest? We don't know for sure and we can't hardly know.
Also, why is "tech workers' opinion" more important than other workers opinion?
Media has a tendency to exaggerate one of the two numbers.
But which one is the largest? We don't know for sure and we can't hardly know.
Also, why is "tech workers' opinion" more important than other workers opinion?
> why is "tech workers' opinion" more important than other workers opinion?
In this case, it's because those tech workers are the ones whose work is being used to advance these horrific outcomes.
In this case, it's because those tech workers are the ones whose work is being used to advance these horrific outcomes.
Just like subjects in other fascist regimes, be damned if they do comply, be damned if they don’t.