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Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings by jorblumesea on Friday November 15, 2019 @08:11PM (#21550269)
Nah, there's a much simpler and more factually correct explanation. Google developed a natural monopoly using smart people. It then had very high hiring standards and higher salaries, and hired more very smart people in order to wrap its tentacles and create more competition crushing apps and features. It gave these smart people more freedom and money compared to what they were used to, and allowed them to freely innovate and task risks. This all happened before the political era we know today.

None of Google's success it had to do with identity politics. In many ways, you could argue Google was a-political for most of its life.

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Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings by lanstin on Friday November 15, 2019 @08:38PM (#21550389)
It seems likely that this is not a conflict between politics and non-politics, or even between left and right, but between labor and management. The people that built Google are shocked that management is not making the decisions they would make (especially about things a bit less functional than most corporate decisions, e.g. whom to do business with). I'm pretty sure that if all the programmers at Google decided Google should not do something as a company, they actually have the power to stop it. I am not sure they want to exercise this power in some coordinated fashion.
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