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saltyoldman a day ago | parent | next [-]

I think you went off the rails to quickly potentially.

He's referring to places like Google or Microsoft having to back out of deals regularly with countries and US agencies after employee backlash.

It seems like now days the backlash is indeed smaller and the heads of said companies are willing to move forward anyway.

That is a significant change from the past.

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rockskon a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Values relating to mistrust of the military (as per the context of the post I responded to) as well as values relating to ownership of the tech you bought and of personal privacy.

Get off your high horse and stop talking down to a person you don't know. Take your anger out on someone else.

	▲	K0balt a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yeah, it wasn’t some kind of ethical utopia, but it sure as hell has gotten a lot less ethical in real terms. When you start Making things operate in ways that people dislike or are deceived by, it’s a very slippery slope, because everything from there all the way through eating babies is just a matter of degree. Trite as it may seem, don’t be evil is actually a very, very strong statement, as is do no harm. 70 percent of tech market cap these days is a a million tiny harms, a warm pool of diluted evil.
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relaxing a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Jobs the Marketer! You want to lump Jobs in with Ellison because he had the gall to purchase advertising for his products?

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iugtmkbdfil834 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

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micromacrofoot a day ago | parent [-]

I also suspect that many could be twice as bad with only half the money

there's a corrupting force we're not coming to terms with here

	▲	iugtmkbdfil834 a day ago \| parent [-]
		Hard to say for sure. In that instance I can only reasonably speak for myself. So far at least, the evidence suggests the more I have, the more distracted I get by new projects.