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Re:Trans Netflix employees will stage walkout to protest Cha... by unpopularopp on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @05:54PM (#28858159)
Is there a study or report why all these social dramas are always coming from the FAANG companie? Are they simply because big? Or just the inner hierarchy is more young? Like I rarely hear things like this from IBM, or Intel, or Cisco etc. the list can go on. Maybe happens in those companies too but when I skim the headlines and I see LGBTQ / race / tech company it's always FB, Apple, Google, Netflix, Amazon
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Re:Trans Netflix employees will stage walkout to protest Cha... by quotemstr on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @06:13PM (#28858301)
> Is there a study or report why all these social dramas are always coming from the FAANG companie?

Because these companies have the highest status and social justice outrage is a form of intra-elite status competition. You'll find that this stuff becomes more intense in academia as you move up the university prestige ladder.

Peter Turchin has written a lot about the general dynamics of intra-elite competition and elite overproduction: see https://www.amazon.com/Secular-Cycles-Peter-Turchin/dp/06911... for example

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Re:Trans Netflix employees will stage walkout to protest Cha... by brodouevencode on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @06:09PM (#28858267)
You might be on to something. It seems almost like they invite it.

"Never let a good controversy go to waste."

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