I also disagree with the parent. Bringing change is almost always easiest from within. “Don’t like it? Leave.” stances aim to do more to attack the person involved than it does to take a critical look at whatever problem it is that’s being discussed.
But nearly everyone has limits, and the petition signing limit was reached for these 1200 Google employees.
We'll see if the quitting limit is ever reached for any of them.
I feel like signing a letter of protest is doing something “real”. It’s communicating to leadership of the company that you have concerns about what has transpired. It’s not nothing.
Back in my days we would chop off heads and assisinate politicans! These kids can't do anything right!
back in my days, we would unionize and block the factories until the company died or we got what we wanted
They ultimately lost but what happened there led to the sympathetic growth of the AFL and CIO and ultimately to the New Deal and the rise of the middle class.
They say history doesn't repeat but it rhymes. I wouldn't be surprised if the next series of pitched struggles between American owners and labor result in extreme violence also, before giving way to a system that is slightly more egalitarian.
Ironic that guillotine memes are so popular among the kids these days, no?