We are complicit in our employer’s deeds

The answer to employer abuse is not isolated people refusing to work at big tech companies. You have very little power alone and while refusing to work for a company you find objectionable may ease your conscience, it does little to affect change (unless you’re in a position with a lot of power like Tim). The solution is organization —- forming a union, or banding together behind a political organization or political campaign to affect change. Both of these run very counter to many tech workers’ individualist mindsets but ate much more effective than individual refusal.

We need a combination of individual refusal and collective organization. With organization across the industry, we can achieve global purposes, while individual refusal can still make important marginal improvements.