But I hardly think that I or most of my colleagues are an insult to any discipline. Apple, Amazon and Google each has tens of thousands of engineers (and many more folks if you consider other roles). In most companies, there will be parts of the company engaging in behaviour you disagree with.
Expecting people to resign from company X because some people at company X do bad things is a very black and white way to think about the world.
But in the words of Desmond Tutu, "if you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor"
¹ Tracking China’s Muslim Gulag: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/muslims-...
There is a spectrum between doing nothing and quitting that falls under "not being neutral in situations of injustice". If our only tool for reforming systems (such as countries or companies) is to abandon them, progress would hardly be possible. Tutu understood this and worked hard to enable reconciliation after Apartheid.
Why does Netflix need sabotaging?
Though I’m pretty sure they do have their blank spots, too, just wanted to say that there’s also quality in their offer.
those few who can't see it, can always look for a job in a high-street bookstore. The perks include: free access to all books in the ethics section.
Writing open letters to Google isn't going to change anything. If you still work for Google in 2018 you are a major part of the problem. The only justification for working at FAANG and not protesting against this is if you are there to actively sabotage the company from the inside.