Viking_Hippie comments on Unionized Google workers learned their jobs were over while testifying to Austin City Council about why they need higher pay

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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..

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[–] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years 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.

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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.

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years 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 🤷

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