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Re:Google workers in London stage walkout over job cuts by rhaway84773 on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @09:41AM (#35439434)
The idea that companies only exist to make money for the owners/shareholders is not a law of nature. Heck it’s not even a very old idea but is probably about 50 years old.

The fact that so many commenters here seem to think it’s akin to a law of nature is an absolutely fascinating study in the effectiveness of propaganda.

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Re:Google workers in London stage walkout over job cuts by nonethewiser on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @11:29AM (#35441244)
Propaganda for what?
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Re:Google workers in London stage walkout over job cuts by version_five on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @12:11PM (#35441908)
There must be some maxim like "reality is the best propaganda" that's already out there
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Re:Google workers in London stage walkout over job cuts by ThrowawayR2 on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @12:55PM (#35442596)
Most developers at Google, the rest of FAANG, startups, etc. get a big part of their compensation as stock. They _are_ shareholders and profiting handsomely from it so of course they're firmly aligned with the pro-shareholder, pro-corporate viewpoint.

Yet, somehow, people are failing to understand this and attributing it to propaganda? To tweak the parent poster's words, the fact that so many commenters fail to realize that is an absolutely fascinating study in how common ignorance is of how people's bread is buttered, even their own.

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Re:Google workers in London stage walkout over job cuts by HDThoreaun on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @01:57PM (#35443549)
Slavery being bad is also not a law of nature. It's an agreed upon convention in society though. Ideas don't have to be intrinsically true for them to be powerful and acted on.
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