Today I Learned
Yesterday
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Eurovision Banned Russia but not Israel
Tech Industry
Yesterday
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DEI Has Ruined Tech
World Conflicts
Yesterday
514
How realistic is the claim that Muslims will take over Europe through immigration and birthrate? (They proudly said it)
World Conflicts
Yesterday
402
Half as many women and children killed in Gaza as previously reported
Layoffs
Yesterday
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I was laid off while H1Bs weren’t
Excluding Facebook, Amazon, Google, Uber and the other giants (just for the sake of making this more interesting, let's agree to disagree because they're multifaceted and do both good & evil). To name a few IMO: Robinhood, AppNexus, JUUL, Affirm, DraftKings.
How is Robinhood considered unethical?
The 3% swindle did it for me.
What’s wrong with Affirm?
I feel it's too close to a payday lender. And hiding behind ambiguous buzzwords about making the world a better place makes it even sleazier. Avant too!
What interest rate makes a loan unethical? Do you refuse funding to people with credit that is worse than the credit required to receive your interest rate cutoff? These issues aren’t easy. Affirm has significantly less competition as they have exclusive contracts with retailers. Avant competes with other lenders directly, and so if you shop around in place with Credit Karma, you can compare offers and get the lowest rate. With competition, things eventually get priced accurately.
What's wrong with AppNexus?
I feel that way about most adtech companies, used that because it's a major one.
Coinbase
Probably not unethical but scammy for sure.
Can’t imagine at the same time being ethical and also scammy 🤔
Patagonia
Not tech, but eye-opening nonetheless :)
Why?
Every single for-profit company. That's how economy works. Wake up, bro
Take a poli sci class you ass
Brilliant insight @ tfh. Some are worse than others and I'm interested in hearing people's opinions. Anything worthwhile to contribute?
Interesting, what made you pick that one?
How is JUUL unethical? They are transitioning people from smoking to vaping and that is a noble cause and a good step toqards reducing the number of people who smoke cigarettes.
I agree it's very positive in that respect, but for me, that's overshadowed by their marketing to minors and making smoking something toxic "cool" again.
There’s data that shows vaping is actually increasing the number of addicted people, especially teens.
AirBnB, JUUL, Walmart, Palantir
With that logic, Apple is unethical for its slave worker factories in China.
with what logic?
FB and G are unethical spying your conversations using your phone's mic and using that info to influence your shopping. Mother fu*
How do people still not understand how advertising algorithms work?
Do you agree with what those companies do?