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Values are not about profits. They are about Innovation. Which fuels market share and has the intended result of increased profits. The assumption that profits rule the world is a projection. Imo, Innovation rules the world.
Values as people understand them are usually about neither profit nor "innovation". It's about people, morality, and goals other than money.
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Can confirm, China watches its citizens abroad, closely, and in person sometimes. Their families can be affected, and if they go back home to visit, there can be problems.
Can confirm your confirm is fabricated from thin air. The difference would be: you might not know you are lying while I do. We are doing the same thing, confirm something not conformable. Theoretically that's lying
"Many of us accepted employment at Google with the company’s values in mind, including its previous position on Chinese censorship and surveillance, and an understanding that Google was a company willing to place its values above its profits." When has it ever put values above profits? Google is selling our data to everyone. What values?
I'm not sure Google has any values right now, unless somebody corrects me.
Values are not about profits. They are about Innovation. Which fuels market share and has the intended result of increased profits. The assumption that profits rule the world is a projection. Imo, Innovation rules the world.
When you chose to take 50% of your compensation in stock, you too have chosen to place company profits over company values.
OH, you're getting a huge salary from Google, you say? Aaaaaaaah.
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While I’d like to try and agree... I think you may be missing a sense of scale and the reality of just how replaceable people are... even magically-gifted google employees.
Replacing people might be easy, but it's never cheap - even in industries with an abundance of candidates. The real issue with having your work-force leave is three-fold. First, you lose all the accumulated knowledge of your team. Second, you lose the cohesiveness of your team. Thirdly, you have to _pay to get a new team_. All of these things conspire to make all but the lowliest of jobs (think Target Associate) much…
It really pains me how Google has changed. When I was younger I always wanted to work there. Now that I've graduated college, I would probably never want to work there.
I agree. However, for every person who doesn't want to work there, five others are willing to join the company, especially those who live overseas and are willing to work for pennies.