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I tend to agree. There are enough problem alerters without solutions in most organizations that it’s not necessary to amplify one’s lack of solutions or influence with comics.
Alerting is meaningless if it doesn't motivate people enough to organize. You're way underestimating the influence of media like this.
https://goomics.net/329/ This one has a lot of meme opportunity. Imagine a third pane ("Oracle" or something) with guns pointed both inward and outward!
If a relationship is bringing you sadness and negativity all the time then it either needs some nurturing or a nuclear option.
The nice thing with employer relationships is you can literally walk away. Relationships with people are worth fixing but no job is worth the sadness, even if it’s with someone as prestigious as Google.com.
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Alerting is meaningless if it doesn't motivate people enough to organize. You're way underestimating the influence of media like this.
No one is motivated by snark. They are motivated by ideals which, by their very nature, cannot be expressed as a negative.
I can agree with that.
They are motivated by ideals which, by their very nature, cannot be expressed as a negative.
Not so much on this one, one person's ideals could be another's hate speech.
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Alerting is meaningless if it doesn't motivate people enough to organize. You're way underestimating the influence of media like this.
No one is motivated by snark. They are motivated by ideals which, by their very nature, cannot be expressed as a negative.
Personally, I find a complete lack of snark to be alienating. I'm not motivated by pure positivity, just creeped out.
I'm not saying this with the intent of harshly criticizing the author, but I admit it's surprising to me that someone (who had other options) would work for 14 years at a company they clearly came to believe was making the world a worse place.
Is there any human organization that is not making the world worse in one way or another? Its pretty much relative in any case, hardly purely evil or purely good unless you are very naive or very young.
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Sorry, but that's not correct. As a counterexample, Google Cloud is not a "loss leader for ads". The hardware division is not a loss leader for ads. There are a myriad of counterexamples. A loss leader is a product which is used to acquire revenue through a different channel, such as game consoles which often sell at a loss on hardware to encourage game sales.
Doesn't the hardware produced by Google direct users towards Google services that contain advertising? Or are they producing non-consumer hardware?
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If Google didn't exist, then Baidu, Tencent or Alibaba would be mining your data instead. Is that what you would prefer?
I’d prefer that they all take their place in history next to the cigarette and trans fat corporations. Thanks for asking.
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Most of Google is not dedicated towards building Ads, surfaces where ads are displayed, or collecting data for ads, despite popular perception.
Every google product exists to encourage people to see more ads, even if he product isn't showing the ads. I encourage anyone to point to a google product that isn't either selling ads or trying to get people to spend more time on the internet so google can sell them more ads.