Comment on Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’

• underwire212@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Problems can be ongoing or increase in severity. Just because it’s been an issue for a while doesn’t mean it’s too late for change.

  Also, some people don’t have the luxury to choose an ethical employer (if they even exist).

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  • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    If you are in tech getting hired by microsoft you should have options

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    • underwire212@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Ethical options?

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      • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        You should be able to get hired by someone without defense contracts if that is what bothers you

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    • elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      …maybe.

      Or, hear me out, the dude specifically applied for Microsoft with the intention of changing shit.

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      • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Do you think a non-executive hire has that ability? That’s a stretch IMO

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• IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Direct participation in the military systems for a genocide is a tad further than the military industrial complex.

  The message is that people participating in genocide will not be made at the very least very uncomfortable for doing so.

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  • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    They had IDF contracts for decades as well. Seriously if they had a problem with this and this is not a PR stunt by this person they are choosing an odd time to make this statement.

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    • IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      An active mass genocide is an odd time to make a statement?

      Microsoft lied about not supplying the IDF military cloud in the past.

      And AI is a far more direct contribution to genocide than excel support.

      Plenty of reasons to do it now. And better now than tomorrow.

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      • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Yes because their military work has been public for decades and it isn’t as if the IDF just started becoming problematic in 2023.

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    • Shardikprime@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Literally this

      It’s like they are signaling to the world guess virtuous they are

      A kind of high ground moral messaging if you will

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      • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Exactly, I would get if you work for a company that just got involved in the military fields but this is microsoft.

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• elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Oh yeah, “modern day slavery has been a problem for years. Why be vocal about it now?”

  Look, I am a cynical nobody, so I sometimes think “nothing will ever change.” But some brave souls, more idealistic than me, take these steps with the hope that it will spark change - or at least it will put one more straw in the camel.

  So yeah, it’s about sending a message, and I think that’s important.

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