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Finding out the hard way they’ve been overindulged.

”Though he knew of a few co-workers who had quit because of their opposition to the $1.2 billion Israeli contract that Google shares with Amazon, called Project Nimbus, he said he opted to stay so he could protest the contract from within. 

Google had been responsive to employee concerns about government work before. In 2018, it decided not to renew a separate Pentagon contract after that work became the subject of intense internal debate. The company also pledged not to make artificial-intelligence technology for military weapons and adopted a set of AI principles to guide its work. 

“I wasn’t expecting that my labor would be going toward aiding a genocide, and that if I spoke up against that I would be instantly fired,” Ibraheem said.”

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/workplace/company-bosses-draw-a-red-line-on-office-activists-bd11b7aa

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6 hours ago, TexasTiger said:

“I wasn’t expecting that my labor would be going toward aiding a genocide..."

The illusion of truth effect - repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the  truth

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