Re:The Uber leak exposes the global war on workers
by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @11:29AM
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I get a sense that many on this site never want the gravy train to stop and will overlook/downplay anything to keep it going. The slightest scrutiny leading to regulation of one tech giant could be the first domino in a series of regulation against all. I don't think that most are outright shills for Uber but I think that many are unwitting shills for big tech.
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Re:The Uber leak exposes the global war on workers
by walleeee on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @12:47PM
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We are peculiarly inclined to suppress whatever impugns the security of that to which we have given our allegiance.
- Walter Lippman, The Basic Problem of Democracy, 1919 (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1919/11/the-bas...)
Re:The Uber leak exposes the global war on workers
by user_7832 on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @01:05PM
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Thank you for your comment. I also have a similar view - folks working at Facebook et al often might suspect/know what they're doing is misleading at best to illegal (dark patterns for eg), but the cognitive dissonance (esp regarding regulations) is a bit too much.
I'm not trying to have a holier than thou approach - lots of people simply need a job, and humans are only human in their actions - but I would be curious to see how opinions of folks working at small startups differ from those working at GAAFA/FAANG etc.
(To be clear, opinions are your personal subjective thought and I don't think they can just be "wrong", I'm just curious on if there's a difference in who thinks what how.)