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Well this event, if true, doesn’t even have anything to do with politics. I guess my point was more that this seems like a major screwup by a company that tries to project itself as a champion of diversity and inclusiveness, so much so that it’s hard for me to believe this lady’s story in its entirety.

If there were corroboration of her story in the article and not just hearsay from Twitter I would feel more sympathetic. This is the same company that also allegedly squashes conservative voices internally. I guess it seems like google is trying hard to be woke and this allegation is definitely not woke so my initial reaction is skepticism.

Edit: after re-reading the story I think the thing that bothers me the most, not just about this but about employment in general, is employers encouraging self—identification of disabilities so they can meet their 7% quota. I think that’s a regulation that just wasn’t well thought out.

Check out the hill. They do a decent job of representing many different viewpoints without being alarmist. Opinion pieces are pretty clearly differentiated from reporting pieces.

The Verge is a Vox owned website. They do some good reporting but they’re not the most impartial.

Yeah probably. I'm wondering if there isn't a way to incentivize actually taking the time to have a conversation with someone you're not immediately attracted to. Maybe like a conversation-length gate or rewards based on message recipient ratings of the message you send?

Alternatively something like a monthly allowance of credit and then an auction style messaging system would be interesting.

Purely a thought experiment here: what do you think would happen if rather than making "ugly people" free to message, you incentivized the message? Pay $1 per message to a hot person, get paid $1 per message to an ugly person.

I wonder if that market would find equilibrium.

Edit: I guess the "purely a thought experiment" disclaimer got dismissed by everybody looking for a little outrage today. This is not a business plan, I just think it's interesting to think about these things.

I took a 15-20% pay cut to move to a town that had college and high school friends. I missed out on a lot of the real bleeding edge type technical challenges that SV has and I feel like I'm taking crazy pills trying to drive change in our organization. However, I never have a problem unwinding after work and am far from burnout. Having this support structure here is probably worth that 15-20%.

Edit: I should note that I really hate mixing personal & work and that I have very few 'friendships' in the workplace that I take outside of work.

It's actually because I tend to be very action-oriented so at some point I get fed up with all of the planning and have to dive in and do something. Then, at a certain point down the road, I realize that the resource requirements (typically time or money) to get to where I want to be are too high so I drop it. I actually get more frustration than gratification out of it.