Why are so many people ok with a world where you have no say in what your employer does, and they can do whatever they want to suit their bottom line?

Though I wonder how much of this is actually corpophilia and how much is people hiding behind it because they don’t want to say “I’m glad these people I disagree with got fired”.

Here are some threads to show what I’m talking about:

r/technology

r/conservative (though this one feels like cheating)

r/news

r/bayarea

r/google

hacker news

washington post comments

etc…

  • @[email protected]OP
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    3510 months ago

    If my company was helping perpetuate world hunger and I blockaded their office, I hope to God you wouldn’t be gleeful at me getting fired

    • @[email protected]
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      2310 months ago

      Not gleeful - just fully understanding why.

      I admire their principled stand. They had to know it would cost them their jobs but chose to do it anyway.

      Their firing isn’t a surprise and is fully reasonable by the company. I hope they get great jobs elsewhere, where their morals will be appreciated… But there are very few workplaces that give a damn about morals.

    • @[email protected]
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      -110 months ago

      I hope to God you wouldn’t be gleeful at me getting fired

      I wouldn’t be “gleeful”, but I can definitely see why the company was within their rights to fire you.

      This is like those nutbags who shut down a highway to protest the environment or something, then accuse the police of being un-environmental when they’re invariably arrested.

      • haui
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        910 months ago

        Shutting down the highway when the planet is literally burning up seems like a very obvious sign of outrage and great restraint as to not get violent despite that outrage, dont you think?

        Arresting protestors during a largely ignored crisis which they protest seems kind of inhumane, no?