I am outraged to find gambling in this casino!
What sort of ethics bubble was the author living in to believe that Google was anything but solely focused on achieving shareholder value?
What sort of ethics bubble was the author living in to believe that Google was anything but solely focused on achieving shareholder value?
It's a complicated cost/benefit tradeoff: are the opportunities for world-improvement available with the resources of an ethically compromised organization worth the world-damage done by your participation (either your presence alone lending legitimacy/size to the org, or by work you may be called upon to do that directly or indirectly does harm)?
If you think there is a simple answer to that, you're wrong.
Like, sure, a lot of people delude themselves into thinking they're not doing harm because they like money or hate change. That's bad, and separate from what I'm describing above: that you can work for a deeply flawed org and accept the cost of your participation in those flaws in return for benefits that you can others can achieve with the resources offered by that same flawed org.
And remember... don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!
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