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The implication that race or gender is involved in the firings is pretty silly.
If the firings disproportionately or systemically impact races or genders, the firings can be racist/sexist -- even if race or gender is not involved in the firing decision. Racism and discrimination are related but separate concepts.
Uh? Can you elaborate?
Why does big always become evil?
Human nature organizing itself within a legal and economic framework. Don't like the result, fix the frameworks. A quote I never get tired of using is, "Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand." If you can, be the change.
Was this the guy that brought us XML?
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Why does everyone assume the actions of the little guy are always morally superior than the actions of the big corporation? I haven't delved into the details of this specific case but this reaction is typical regardless of the facts it seems. The big company is always the evil one and the employees are always little enslaved saints. Edit: Whoops this comment could have been made less controversially - I wish everyone…
When one side has all the power and the other side has none, to pretend that the benefit of the doubt accrues equally to both is an act of moral cowardice.
I really don't think a single top level engineer voting with his feet will have any measurable impact technically or financially on amazon.
Why does big always become evil?
In someways small companies have more potential to be evil, because they often fly "under the radar". "We shouldn’t fetishize mom and pop operations. They offer lower wages, skimpier benefits, and inferior labor protections." See: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/01/small-businesses-workers-...
I haven't paid Jacobin much attention heretofore. If this article is any representation of how well worth taking seriously they are, I'll continue that policy. This reads more than anything like a Republican caricature of leftist thought.
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Nobody "fetishizes" small business. This sounds like big corporation mouthpiece rhetoric. Big business is responsible for wealth concentration and irresponsible economics that hurt everyone. The alternative? Small business. It's easy to see why people might prefer a reality where small businesses continue to exist. Not everyone likes the Orwell novel we're writing.
Big business is also responsible for economies of scale. A small mom and pop shop can't really scale the same way a big business does. Another added benefit is that we get to regulate the products much more without swamping the business in costs they can't afford. So I'm not sure that big business is really "responsible for irresponsible economics that hurts everyone".
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2016/04/11/is-big-...
Credit is due to anyone willing to sacrifice, no matter how small, for the voiceless and underrepresented.
"When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.” -- Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison
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Perhaps if there were more people like Tim Bray the Death Star might be a little more progressive and might not be the de facto “winning team”.
Just like with politics, those people have a way of letting their personal ethics select them out of the organization they were hoping to change.