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That's exactly why they spend that much money. They know you can be submitted. They want tech talent. Not revolutionists. It's a rough world out there and it's better to get in line than lose your pot of gold.

Doesn't make it right at all. But if you were that engineer, it's easier to say to yourself that you'll work your way up and change things the day you are in charge.

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It's not revolutionary to say that asking for user passwords is stupid and dangerous. Nothing good will come from giving your email account password to Facebook (or any company). It's also a basic human rights violation. We all have a right to our passwords. We do not have to share them with organizations seeking to exploit us and our information. It's just basic common sense, not revolutionary.

It's "revolutionary" to try and defy your bosses who tell you what code to write. Get back to your keyboard, serf.

When someone still works for such a company after an announcement this, they are part of the problem!

> Nothing good will come from giving your email account password to Facebook (or any company).

To clarify: nothing good for you. Ignoring ethical issues, Facebook certainly benefits.

There's a book about the process by which this happens: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/558867.Disciplined_Minds

> Many professionals set out to make a contribution to society and add meaning to their lives. Yet our system of professional education and employment abusively inculcates an acceptance of politically subordinate roles in which professionals typically do not make a significant difference.

The book Moral Mazes also deals with this topic.

Companies are not democracies. Is it a contradiction that we both praise democracy and spend our working time in dictatorships? Probably but we usually don't even notice it.

I think large corporations are a threat to both democracy and to capitalism. Excessive concentrations of wealth and power are dangerous. Clearly they can be leveraged for money and power, which is why they exist, but we might be better off with smaller scale enterprises and more equal co-operations.

I feel like you may share the same interest I have in this crazy giant federation of worker cooperatives (mondragon). I'm curious of many things in regards to it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation

This is such an astute observation, yet remarkably simple.

I'd never stopped to think about it, but I think the world would be a much better place if more people did.

It is kinda funny when you tell their headhunters you will never work for them because they don't meet your ethical standards. I highly recommend the experience.

We're they confused, angry or both?

Confused at first, and then eager to get off the phone.

I told them a couple days ago that my belief in privacy as a fundamental right would make me a bad culture fit. They didn't reply.

Now you got me curious. Was the response ... a bit unethical ?

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