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Periodic reminder: public listed corporations are not our friend. They have a single directive: maximise returns for shareholders, and are legally bound to do anything they can get away with to achieve that. They exist to concentrate the means of the many in the hands of the few They are fundamentally 'engines of inequity'. Because of their single incentive, they are in a race to the ethical bottom. Their structure is that of an autocracy. A few of them are... 1/3
bigger, in terms of wealth & influence, than most countries. We cannot afford their continued existence.
At best, they can be friends of convenience (theirs not ours). They should be shunned at every opportunity, and dependence on any of them should be seen as irresponsible (governance-wise) as taking money from a known loan shark.
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@lightweight The one case where dependence on one is valid is when it is the moral high ground. e.g., one might take a loan from a known loan shark, if their kids are starving.
Morality is relative.
Funny this came up after I just saw the movie, Knock at the Cabin. (Not a must see, and I don't know why they didn't keep the book title.)
@lwriemen it is, to be sure. And yes, intent is the real issue (https://davelane.nz/intent) however, being forced to use a loan shark is the result of a whole lot of compounded bad luck or a lot of bad decisions, or a a lot of both.
@lightweight Sometimes not that much. Depends upon where you started.
The job market is something you have to balance with family commitments. Location makes choices for you, and you can't always change those. Saying you can is the equivalent of saying, "pull yourself up by your bootstraps".
@lwriemen I'm very aware privilege (my own and others), and lack thereof. Totally agree about 'where you start'. That said, I think it's pretty easy to see the difference between jobs taken out of need vs. jobs taken by choice. I'd say few people take a departmental manager or VP role at Microsoft out of desperation. Working in the canteen or acting as a janitor, yeah, maybe. I see culpability as proportional to decision-making power/influence.