A professor declined a $60K research award from Google

Re:A professor declined a $60K research award from Google by airhead969 on Saturday March 27, 2021 @02:51PM (#26604492)

Personally, I refuse to work for Google no matter how many $100k's or flexibility in role design and department choices they throw at me. This is because "don't be evil" was only an ostensible mission statement that has long since fell by the wayside since it obviously never was a primary value.

Of FAANG, Apple and Netflix aren't nearly as evil as the others.

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Re:A professor declined a $60K research award from Google by throwawayprc99 on Saturday March 27, 2021 @04:35PM (#26605417)

So contracting with overseas factories with work conditions so poor that they need to have suicide nets is not as evil as what Google does as a search engine?

Did you hear about the most recent debacle in India where Apple factory workers weren't getting paid their $3 USD monthly wages on time?

The fact that this trillion dollar company does this is pure evil.

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Re:A professor declined a $60K research award from Google by DanBC on Sunday March 28, 2021 @07:50AM (#26609546)

All buildings that allow access to the roof should have suicide nets or tall fencing.

You should compare rates in those factories with similar sized factories in the US -- as far as I can tell the rates are similar.

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Re:A professor declined a $60K research award from Google by throwawayprc99 on Sunday March 28, 2021 @09:43AM (#26610329)

I'd love to see data for that. Do you work for Apple? Amazon warehouses, as notorious as they are for working conditions, don't even have a suicide problem. Note that the nets were installed reactively:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides

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Re:A professor declined a $60K research award from Google by airhead969 on Saturday March 27, 2021 @08:29PM (#26606964)

Evil and suffering are relative, not absolutes. It's less evil than inciting and enabling genocides. Making workers pee in bottles or fire them for not moving fast enough is a different evil.

Netflix seems a pretty ethically- and morally-benign company of the FAANG gang: they're an online (and by-mail) Blockbuster.

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