Google is on the Wrong Side of History.
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Literally every publicly owned corporation is.
As this shit gets normalized, watch all of them fall in line.
Apple is already back advertising on X.
Corporations only care about money, and they will change their values to match what makes money.
They never accepted women, blacks, latinos and the disabled into their ranks because they thought those people were humans who had intrinsic value just for existing.
No, they accepted them because they knew they were leaving money on the table. They could market shaving to women to increase razor blade sales, because now women employees would have money to spend. They could market hair care products to the black community because now their black employees would have money to spend.
It was always about expanding markets and finding more people to sell shit to. Once that stops being profitable in the USA, treating those people like humans will stop. Watch it happen with the disabled first.
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Always has been.
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Corporations just reflect the values of their owners. There are companies that emphasize things other than revenue, but as soon as a company goes public and becomes controlled by Wall Street, profit becomes their sole motivation
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But they're always right, just look at Google glass, Google plus, and Stadia... Or google buzz, google health, and igoogle.
Yep, Google never gets it wrong.
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That's why I just upgraded my subscription to Proton. (YES I KNOW ABOUT ALL THE DRAMA WITH THEIR CEO!!! AT LEAST THEY'RE NOT SELLING AI SERVICES TO MILITARY CONTRACTORS, DOING MASS SURVEILLANCE OR SELLING MY FUCKING DATA!)
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We knew this as soon as they got rid of the “Don’t be evil” slogan
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Ever heard of JP Morgan or GE? Doesn’t matter.
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Capitalism is amoral
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No ethical consumption under capitalism, yep.
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When have they not?
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They could market shaving to women to increase razor blade sales, because now women employees would have money to spend.
That makes zero sense. Paying people so they can spend a tiny fraction of it back to your company? Why not just keep the money in the first place?
No, they hire them because they've run the math and realized it costs less to hire them than that it costs them in sales due to public perception.
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GO BACK TO SENDING PIECES OF PAPER IN THE MAILBOX YOU FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT /s
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You might need to pause and think a bit more. Corporations are competing for money. There isn’t just one big pile of money somewhere.
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Inevitably, all hierarchical organizations end up on the wrong side of history.
In hierarchies, people compete for position.
People with principles, morals, integrity and/or empathy will have choices that they simply will not make.
People without those things are not constrained. They can and will make whatever choices might benefit them, with no regard for the consequences to others.
So all other things being more or less equal, psychopaths actually have a competitive advantage in hierarchies, and hierarchies end up effectively rewarding and thus selecting for psychopathy.
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☞ We knew this as soon as they got the “Don’t be evil” slogan
if you need to remind yourself not to be evil, that's already a bad start.
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And if there is one uniting principle in conservatism, the singular reason why religious dirt-poor common-clay-of-the-West support billionaires, is that they all deeply believe in hierarchies.
Why do they go after trans-women but not trans-men? Because men are naturally higher in the hierarchy than women, thus wanting to exist in male spaces (but not actually crossing into them) is seen as the proper order, whereas wanting to exist in female spaces (read: lowering yourself in the hierarchy) is seen as unnatural.
Why do they fellate the rich? Because the wealthy are better people, which is tautologically why they're rich.
Why are they racist? Because white people are better than not-white people, natch.
Why do they hate atheists? Because the very concept of religion implicitly enforces hierarchy. Sectarian disputes are just an offshoot of this.
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Fuck them
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This is why the stock market was, fundamentally, a trojan horse. It was created so capitalism could intertwine the peoples wealth and retirement funds to the success of the wealth of the oligarchy, making the entire market too big to fail.
Now the entire system is designed to prevent damage to companies, no matter how moral, unethical, or criminal. The success of corporations IS treated as equal to "national security".
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This seems relevant here…
