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Comment by jsiepkes | Hacker News Reader

What I don't understand is why tech people (who have plenty of job opportunities) want to work for a company which does things like this.

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Have you been to India? There is high income inequality and poverty and labor is cheap. People are willing to do anything to have a better life and they don’t care if it affects other people . With 1.3 billion people competition for survival is fierce and empathy for others may lead to your downfall as only the fittest survive . The education is geared towards STEM to be highly employable and make money to get out of poverty . Amazon and big tech love India for smart , dedicated and hardworking workers who do not question broader societal questions and serve the company. PS - Sorry I am stereotyping to an extent and do not mean to come across as hateful. Just answering why tech people want to work in such situations.

I should probably have been more specific in my comment; I fully understand people who are working on visa's (or wanting to obtain one) working for these companies.

What I don't understand is why people who have no "nothing to lose" incentive (for example are "native" citizens of a country such company is based in) want to work for these companies. These people can lead perfectly comfortable lives without working for companies which behave questionably.

The way they treat even their tech people is horrible. I would say either you get paid a fortune or you work there to have amazon on your resume on the way to a better gig.

Same reason some people go work in Defense.

Money.

I don’t work in defense and I don’t want to, but I’d say defense is much more a gray area than Amazon. Defense is required, but has definitely gone of the rails in ways.

On the other hand, Amazon is definitely not required at all, it’s a pure race to the bottom play.

Most of the people I know in defense are relatively mission oriented.

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