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Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube

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1783 points zaggynl | 1 comments | 18 May 20 15:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.272s | source
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ddevault ◴[18 May 20 15:27 UTC] No.23223542[source]▶
Google & YouTube employees on HN: how do you justify still working at this company? Enough of the cognitive dissonance. Face your choices and tell me how you square yourself with them. For shame.
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ravenstine ◴[18 May 20 15:32 UTC] No.23223644[source]▶
It might be easy to say this, but I believe I would quit if I was asked to implement something like that. But perhaps I'd be different if I were paid $300k a year. (I sure hope not, though)
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ddevault ◴[18 May 20 15:35 UTC] No.23223680[source]▶
If you were being paid $300K/year, it costs your employer (as a rule of thumb) 1.5x, or about $450K/year. The only reason they could spend $450K/year on you is if they expected to make at least that much money with you, compared to what they would make without you. Even if you aren't directly working on this stuff, you are providing them with capital that is being spent on it.
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1. cmrdporcupine ◴[18 May 20 17:07 UTC] No.23225166[source]▶
Arguably they don't have to make that money off you directly.

They just need you to not be elsewhere making that money for someone else, or disrupting a market that they are entrenched in. IMHO much of the FAANG hiring / head count / acquisition process could be analyzed in this light.