• @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    324 months ago

    “AKSCHUALLY they were technically Cognizant employees on a limited contract so everything’s fine” - random asshole or paid Google lickspittle

    • @Got_Bent@lemmy.world
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      184 months ago

      We really have become a society that thrives on the suffering of others almost to the point of sexual pleasure. It’s truly repugnant.

    • Zagorath
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      144 months ago

      or paid Google lickspittle

      Almost zero chance it’s that. They don’t need to pay people to do it when they know people are more than willing to do it for free due to a lifetime of capitalist indoctrination.

      • @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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        84 months ago

        They may not need to, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t. There seems to be an inverse relationship between wealth and skin thickness, which would make that of Google translucent…

        • @Got_Bent@lemmy.world
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          94 months ago

          It only makes sense.

          When you’re poor and not powerful, you get shit on daily and you grow a certain impervious callous to the constant assaults.

          When you’re rich and powerful, nobody ever tells you no, so the slightest of criticism is entirely strange and foreign and therefore unacceptable.

        • Zagorath
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          34 months ago

          Eh, I think the consequences if they got caught out doing this would far outweigh the tiny benefits they get from it. Not to mention how incredibly easy it would be to get caught.

          Compare to other levers they could pull, like a small change in the YouTube algorithm to favour anti-union content. Which would have a far more wide-reaching impact, and would be far harder to prove causation.

          • @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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            44 months ago

            consequences if they got caught out doing this

            You mean like when Amazon was caught doing it and there was a couple days of memes and then nothing? I think Google could weather that breeze…

            As for that other lever, I’m pretty sure they’ve pulled it many times already 🤷