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Re:We are complicit in our employer’s deeds by door99 on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @10:32AM (#23080395)
The answer to employer abuse is not isolated people refusing to work at big tech companies. You have very little power alone and while refusing to work for a company you find objectionable may ease your conscience, it does little to affect change (unless you’re in a position with a lot of power like Tim). The solution is organization —- forming a union, or banding together behind a political organization or political campaign to affect change. Both of these run very counter to many tech workers’ individualist mindsets but ate much more effective than individual refusal.
Re:We are complicit in our employer’s deeds by gbear605 on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @10:59AM (#23080715)
We need a combination of individual refusal and collective organization. With organization across the industry, we can achieve global purposes, while individual refusal can still make important marginal improvements.