It’s genuinely amusing to see how and why people posture, as though working for MS prior to 2023 was somehow ethical. Your post arguably only scratches the surface too.

I’ve concluded that most people care far more about appealing to the crowd than actually thinking by anything through.

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JoshTriplett an hour ago | parent [-]

If you shame people for acting now rather than earlier, you discourage them from acting at all.

Sometimes people aren't in a position to be secure enough to act. Sometimes different issues are more effective at resonating enough to break through previously cached unconsidered patterns of thought. Sometimes people don't know all the things that are going on, and act once they've learned about them. Whatever the reason, if your reaction is "took you long enough" rather than "welcome", you discourage people from acting.

Don't punish the behavior you want to see more of.

(Also, OP is not even an instance of what you're decrying; see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49647687 .)

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EA-3167 an hour ago | parent [-]

I’m not interested in shaming people or crediting them for superficial performances. The entire premise is ridiculous, as if the companies people are working for are somehow ethical.

You’re making money from venture capitalists and tech firms, MS, Meta, X, Google, etc… which of them is any better than MS? They’re all awful in different ways.

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JoshTriplett an hour ago | parent | next [-]

You are dismissing people as superficial or performative when they are taking action according to their ethics. Have you considered the possibility that people are not, in fact, performing, and are just trying to be ethical?

I can't tell if your actual goal here is to be dismissive of the entire concept of people caring about ethics, or if you don't think that quitting is an effective means of acting in concert with those ethics. If it's the latter, then I'd suggest that it's a start, not everyone is in the position to do even that much, and some people who do so will be able to go further. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, particularly if someone is taking a step in the right direction.

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alpha_squared an hour ago | parent | next [-]

A lesson I've had to learn is that, for some people, ethics is a paycheck. It can be incomprehensible to imagine someone acting against their own paycheck as a result.

	▲	mitxela 20 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Capitalistic evolution selects for that people, so their numbers only increase.

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EA-3167 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

You don’t have to repeat yourself, I understood your point originally, I simply disagree with both your premise and conclusions. I don’t have the same respect for people who preach “anti-Zionism” at every turn online, I’m not that gullible.

	▲	5upplied_demand 13 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		If quitting a job is "performative" what would you consider a "non-performative" act? Ironically, you are doing your own preaching in your comments. It could even be described as "performative."

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sebzim4500 22 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

It's clearly not a superficial performance if you actually quit a high paying job.