It's pretty amazing that at the exact same time that Google employees are leaving in droves because of Google's participation in the mass murder industry, cooperativists of a relatively prominent voice decide it's not too bad to be so willing to "partner" with Google.
Just fuck off, no excuses needed, just go and take the money.
@h Of course. It's the siren cry of corruption, from the lowliest consultant to the largest multinational corporation, of which Google is one.
@h Isn't that the exact opposite of what they should be doing? Cooperatives could do well with better PR.
@h how many people are actually leaving? I heard a dozen or so. Is it more than that?
@remotenemesis How could I possibly know. I had no idea that it was a thing to begin with.
@h just curious, you said droves and to me that implied > 12. I wondered if you had more information.
@remotenemesis I don't think I said that, sorry. You may have read that from somebody else.
@remotenemesis Ah I get you now. Sorry, I thought you were referring to a different toot.
@h nbd anyway. I expect Alphabet to spin up a miltech company with discrete branding such that Google drones will be placated.
@remotenemesis Reports are that twelve quit, but four thousand made it clear that they were on the fence, that would be a more accurate way to put it.
@h A disappointingly small number IMHO.
@remotenemesis Well, that's disappointing but at the same time I'm quite encouraged by the stand of the other 4000 who were offended enough to take a very public stand. That's a significant portion of Google's headcount estimated at 62,000.
@h yeah, I guess they can rest safely now and return to their _good_ work of surveillance capitalism.
@h That 1mm dollars the other day? Yes. I was disappointed too.
@jdaviescoates @h True. No fractional reserve. They literally print the money as debt -- and don't print the amount needed for the interest, leading to inflation. They simply create the amount of your loan in a digital ledger and it springs into existence. Ridiculous.
@h And what leads these same cooperativists to believe that Google *won't* try to take over and assimilate the cooperative(s) that partner with it, like they have every other organization Google's gotten involved with?