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cjusticeon We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly

To some extent, I believe all tech companies are capable of moral failures like this. It's impossible for the profit motive to always align with ethics. It's all a question of scale, really.

cjusticeon If Sociologists Had as Much Influence as Economists

Modern Western society seems to associate quantitative research with "rigor", and to believe that it is more objective than qualitative studies. Rather than take this approach, I believe it would be more worthwhile to say that all research will be influenced by the author's societal positioning. For example, consider how economists choose what metrics to use in their experiments. It seems to me impossible to say that those choices could ever be unbiased, free of influence by external forces.

cjusticeon Silicon Valley takes a right turn

"Among Ferenstein’s findings: a minority, 29 percent, of tech company founders described labor unions as “good,” compared to 73 percent of Democrats."

Are these feelings shared by tech-sector workers at-large? Unions are responsible for so many improvements in workplace rights, and have traditionally been at the forefront of working and middle class struggles!