Comment on No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B Contract with Israel

locke@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Sneptaur@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Hmm, these people got arrested for being against genocide. Sounds like a great place for me to work!”

  I sure hope you’re joking

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  • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You may underestimate the ongoing desperation for paid full time work with benefits in the US.

    A lot of folk are one paycheck, one tragedy, one road accident or severe sickness away from homelessness.

    And homelessness is already criminalized in some counties.

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    • Sneptaur@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      These are not the type of job for someone struggling so much. This is tech work. Googlers are very privileged.

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      • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They are, which means they know how dear their position is.

        The concern for survival goes right up the hierarchy. Someone who works at Google fears falling out of their career and ending up in a one-paycheck-from-homelessness job. We’ve seen the same despair among political staffers; getting dismissed by an elected official could end their career in politics, meaning they’re one of the rest of us.

        Truth be told, I couldn’t hack it and serve a toxic boss, but plenty of people would rather work in a cushy job for an evil overlord than a toxic job that is morally clean. That is one of the costs of existing in a society that runs on late-stage capitalism.

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  • locke@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well, I probably cannot get in there anyway so it’s a bit moot.

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    • Sneptaur@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wow, that’s disgusting. Have you no morals? Shame on you.

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      • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “I sold my moral compass to Lockheed Martin Google for 90k/year and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt”

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      • pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        $200k a year and a pizza party are what his morals are worth, apparently.

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      • locke@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Are you trying to be funny?

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      • Aux@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There are plenty of people who support Israel and believe it is the moral thing to do. Morals are subjective and arbitrary. They cannot be used to judge one’s actions.

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• Maeve@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Friendly reminder: There will always be scabs

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• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  position to be removed as downsizing opportunity following termination

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• WallEx@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wow, a genuine genocide supporter, would you look at that.

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  • JdW@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wow, a genuine terrorsim supporter. would you look at that.

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