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

• 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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      • RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Are you? You have zero issues with 10s of thousands of innocent people being murdered?

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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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      • Larry@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Actions can be judged plenty over morals

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      • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They cannot be used to judge one’s actions.

        So, when I say it is my moral obligation to help rid the planet of conservatives because they are evil, I do hope you will not condemn my moral actions.

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      • Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I am morally obligated to punch all conservative scum until they lose a few teeth :)

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