EEeesmith·Jul 3, 2022
But is he right? At what point is it unethical for an ethical person to continue to work for an unethical company? When should people who work for an unethical face personal negative effects?
He's not unique in this viewpoint. Quoting jwz: "As I've said before, if you work for Facebook, you should quit; it's the only morally defensible thing for you to do."
> his entire software stack depends ...
That sounds like the Mr. Gotcha meme: https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/ . Again referring to jwz, his nightclub is on Facebook and Instagram because it's not economically viable to avoid them. ... Gotcha!
Similarly, it's hard to avoid all software which doesn't have influence from the big tech companies. I used https://github.com/swenson/sort ('Sorting routine implementations in "template" C"), and even this little indy package has contributors f
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rom Google Inc and the main developer worked at Google for a year.
DeVault's working on a new programming language, Hare. You could view that as having the long-term unstated goal of escaping unethical companies.