Comments on: Google Employees: We Are Responsible for the Technology We Bring into the World https://www.sanjoseinside.com/opinion/google-employees-we-are-responsible-for-the-technology-we-bring-into-the-world/ A look inside San Jose politics and culture Wed, 20 Jan 2021 06:30:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6.12 By: SJOutsideTheBubble https://www.sanjoseinside.com/opinion/google-employees-we-are-responsible-for-the-technology-we-bring-into-the-world/#comment-1694503 Wed, 20 Jan 2021 06:30:17 +0000 https://www.sanjoseinside.com/?p=201167927#comment-1694503 > Nor can Kulak wrap his knucklehead around, or appreciate the significance of, the basic democratic practice of organizing a workers’ union against great odds.

A business isn’t a “democracy”, nor should it be.

A business has a purpose defined by the entrepreneur or owners.

People who join the business as employees should be committed to the business purpose, or they shouldn’t join.

Businesses succeed or fail on how well they motivate their employees to support the business purpose.

If employees are NOT motivated to support the business purpose, they should leave and join a business whose purpose they support.

Trying to turn a business into a democracy and inviting employees to change the purpose of a business will inevitably result in the purpose of the business being to pay people to vote for more pay and less work and less business success.

]]> By: SJ Kulak https://www.sanjoseinside.com/opinion/google-employees-we-are-responsible-for-the-technology-we-bring-into-the-world/#comment-1694416 Sun, 17 Jan 2021 18:55:35 +0000 https://www.sanjoseinside.com/?p=201167927#comment-1694416 your rant didn’t answer one question…

they are not talking about improving their work conditions, pay, or whatever, which has real trade-offs in tech, you can collectively bargain yourself out of very real out-year gains. But that is a trivial, a well plowed field and locally significant. Good for them if they can make the trade-off work, I wouldn’t take it. RSUs and stock options paid my early retirement. It’s not my business at all.

What they are talking about having the power, which google does, to make the world something, they say a better place. That is globally significant and what is that? and who decides? 5% these kids and 95% the Chairman of Alphabet?

You are trying to win arguments crafting flowery prose with your head in the clouds but missing the point.

]]> By: Facendo Guaio https://www.sanjoseinside.com/opinion/google-employees-we-are-responsible-for-the-technology-we-bring-into-the-world/#comment-1694394 Sun, 17 Jan 2021 08:40:15 +0000 https://www.sanjoseinside.com/?p=201167927#comment-1694394 Poor Kulak cannot stand the sight of working people speaking and taking agency for themselves. He rails against big tech executives who undermine the economic well-being, political freedoms and rights of working people, yet is equally hostile to working people challenging those very same executives from inside the belly of the monster. Nor can Kulak wrap his knucklehead around, or appreciate the significance of, the basic democratic practice of organizing a workers’ union against great odds. Make up your mind already.

While you, SJOutsidetheBubble and the other Trumpist/libertarians who regularly deface the comments section might think my comments are spurious and indiscriminate rants from Jupiter or Mars, San Jose Inside readers are regularly reminded that yours are almost always directly from Uranus.

]]> By: SJ Kulak https://www.sanjoseinside.com/opinion/google-employees-we-are-responsible-for-the-technology-we-bring-into-the-world/#comment-1694391 Sun, 17 Jan 2021 06:38:58 +0000 https://www.sanjoseinside.com/?p=201167927#comment-1694391 It has a responsibility to prioritize the public good.

What is the definition of Public Good?

It has a responsibility to its thousands of workers and billions of users to make the world a better place.

What does a world that is a better place look like?

You decide for us?

What if I don’t like the world you are making? What if 49% of the people in the world don’t like it? What if 99% don’t like it?

Does that make a difference?

]]> By: FEXXNIST https://www.sanjoseinside.com/opinion/google-employees-we-are-responsible-for-the-technology-we-bring-into-the-world/#comment-1694310 Fri, 15 Jan 2021 23:23:58 +0000 https://www.sanjoseinside.com/?p=201167927#comment-1694310 For those who feel they have been discriminated, contact nolo.com for free consultation and representation. What about a class law suit? If you do not win, you do not pay a dime!

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