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[–] Sackbut@lemmy.ml 268 points 1 year ago (13 children)

This is worse than the Gamer's Nexus video. The biggest red flag initially wasn't even the bad testing data, it was how overworked the staff were. Clearly employee wellness is not a priority.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Linus didn't notice because that's status quo in modern capitalism.

Still makes Linus a shithead for going right along with horrible practices, but it should go to explain how a lot of it is not conscious malicious intent. Employers exploit people all the time.

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 25 points 1 year ago (6 children)

“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority.”

—Lord Acton, Letter to Bishop Creighton (1887)

[–] jamkey@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This is not my thesis but someone else’s but as a counterpoint to this platitude, look at the difference between Lincoln versus Nixon. Both were leaders at pivotal times but they took very different ethical directions. Sometimes character and background DOES matter and we SHOULD expect more of our leaders. Just assuming they will all be corrupt makes up disengage from the process.

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