>Incidentally, there’s an interesting book that just came out finally, says some of the obvious things about this, by a woman named Elizabeth Anderson. She’s a philosopher and an economist. It’s called Private Government or some name like that, but her point is that, which is a major point, yes, there is a government, but governments can be repressive. But most of our lives are under private government, which she says are indistinguishable from communist dictatorships.
>Any business, for example. If you subject yourself to it, you become essentially a slave of the institution with no rights, give away your liberty, and so on.
>....And when the Industrial Revolution came along, everything changed. You could only survive by being subordinate to a major corporate structure, and wage labor became the norm.
[1] https://taibbi.substack.com/p/preface-an-interview-with-noam...
Yeah, but probably not all those Googlers that feel like they need to be both activists and work in Silicon Valley.
Most political expression these days is shallow and negative, and as a result is potentially divisive. I doubt many employers would have a problem with positive, constructive sentiment...but these days people just talk about who they want to punch.
Work shouldn't be private governments, work shouldn't be authoritarian. Workers do the work, they deserve a say -- not just the shareholders.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/technology/google-employe...
[2] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/05/google-employees-res...
- You have to ask for a review.
- Even if you find a like-minded programmer, most key parts of the code are flagged by senior programmers who get alerted where there is a significant change.
- Assuming this goes through, any significant change in which websites get listed, clicked on, etc. will be flagged by an anomaly-detection tool.
Changing anything impactful requires to pass through a lot of internal radars, certainly far more sensitive, informed and exhaustive than anything external.
I'd always assume the server farm to handle my search request would be stateless. Whom in Google should Sundar hold accountable if that's not the case?
