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Aral Balkan

Saying you work in Big Tech because you want to “change it from within” is like saying you’re a butler for the royal family because you want to overthrow the monarchy.

#BigTech #peopleFarming #surveillanceCapitalism #developer #designer #engineer #complicity

19 Sep 2022 at 7:02 | Open on mastodon.ar.al
6 comments
Knut

@aral This applies to all bigger organizations. People trying the same in political parties are similarly ineffective, but still a lot of them claim that as their goal.

19 Sep 2022 at 8:56 | Reply | Open on mastodon.social
Desikner

@aral Here we have a saying: "Who sleeps with the dog catches it fleas". Meaning you start behaving the same.

19 Sep 2022 at 9:02 | Reply | Open on mastodon.social
Davide Eynard (+mala)

@aral yeah, that’s also why many CEOs regret going public: changes might happen, but mostly in the direction of shareholders’ interests 😖

Still, if you think about individuals working in big tech, they have a chance to learn a lot, grow, help others, and bring different points of view both in and outside the company. And while big companies usually do not stray too much from their paths, people can and at some point they might bring something which is valuable to everyone.

19 Sep 2022 at 11:09 | Reply | Open on fosstodon.org
Davide Eynard (+mala)

@aral
I feel, of course, super biased, but I am also super grateful you have started this conversation and happy to have a chance to say what I think about this 🙂

19 Sep 2022 at 11:10 | Reply | Open on fosstodon.org
Matthew G.

@aral TBH, I suspect that the butler has a better chance of shanking the king than a techie does of changing #BigTech from within.

Getting away with it would be the hard part.

19 Sep 2022 at 14:03 | Reply | Open on fosstodon.org
mayech

@aral
"You don't change the inside, the inside changes you."
Applies to anything.

19 Sep 2022 at 14:27 | Reply | Open on mastodon.social
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