A professor declined a $60K research award from Google

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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