Of course it is. Arguably the people with that privilege should have more obligation to exercise it in the service of what’s right.
This is not obvious to me.
He worked at Facebook, let's not get carried away.
Working at Facebook and then leaving because of the non-intervention wrt to the President is a bit like manufacturing landmines quite happily, but having a change of heart because you saw a dog stepping on one. You've still been manufacturing landmines all that time, making money and not giving a damn.
Facebook has been on my list of companies not to work at for a long time, but I have friends who work there. Accepting that other people value different things and being willing to interact with them on a basic, human level is a lot more likely to build bridges and lead to constructive conversation about important matters down the road than casting people aside because they don't conform to your worldview today.
I'll grant you that Facebook, among others, enables exactly the sort of thing I'm advocating against. I'll grant you that it seems to promote people yelling at each other over the internet instead of building the relationships that enable difficult conversations in time. And I'll grant you that they do it to sell ads for shit we mostly don't need.
But that doesn't make everybody who works there bad, and it doesn't mean that people who decide that continuing to work there is no longer consistent with their values should be equated with merchants of death when they publicly leave.
You're castigating somebody for voting with their feet, but presumably mostly because they didn't do it as soon as you did.
No. I'm saying they did always vote with their feet. And "get money, fuck society" was the vote they cast.
Facebook isn't the army, there is no draft, they had and have plenty of other options. It's greed and a general feeling of superiority that sees the general population the same way the owners of factory farms see pigs.
Instead of personal cost to him, I'd rather view it through the lenses of the impact of his action. It's inviting a lot of constructive conversation and making people re-evaluate Mark's decisions, which I think overall is a net positive.
Namely those who hold stock options or who used it to hyper target unsuspecting fools and scam them.
> Instead of personal cost to him, I'd rather view it through the lenses of the impact of his action.
Let's. The "constructive conversation" has been going on already. This doesn't move the needle on that conversation, it's not one with a lot of grey area where the world is on the fence. This is great - for him. But not much else.
Oh sure those too. But small businesses benefit from it immensely, e.g using fb live and fb groups to connect with their customers for example.
> Let's. The "constructive conversation" has been going on already. This doesn't move the needle on that conversation, it's not one with a lot of grey area where the world is on the fence. This is great - for him. But not much else.
If that's the case, what do you think he should have done, or we should have done?
Doesn’t mean it’s not the right thing to do, just that it would carry more weight if he was leaving to go work at Burger King. Then you’d say “man that guy stands tall”.
Edit: Ok reasonable criticism, I’ll withdraw.
You are literally the only person who thinks this.
Now imagine that OP inspires 100 employees quit -- now Facebook has a problem that it must address, because it's threatening their bottom line.
Until he does it's just virtue signalling.
(yeah, I don't get some people either)
Resigning isn’t about sacrifice to the volcano god, and if that is what you’re looking for, you are not the audience.
It reminds me of the old joke about the skinflint who accidentally put a pound in the collection plate instead of a shilling. "Oh well", he says, "I'll get credit for the pound." The priest hears him and replies, "No, you'll get credit for the shilling."