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Microsoft employees removed from town hall for protesting AI contracts with Israeli military
(www.middleeastmonitor.com)
this post was submitted on 27 Feb 2025
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I took the hit to my overall earnings by not working for a corporation that kills the planet/tramples on workers rights/engages in war crimes.
Have you?
do you eat meat, dairy, and eggs? do you drive to work?
Yes, yes, yes, no.
If your point is that I engage in immoral practices; of course I do.
That wasn’t my initial argument though.
As I have said in another comment, if I worked for Microsoft I wouldn’t wear a shirt complaining about my work killing people in a foreign country because I would realise that makes me a hypocrite.
In the same way I wouldn’t be vegan, work for an abattoir and complain to my CEO that killing animals is wrong.
so what's the argument? I've been vegan since Obama was president and bike or transit to my job at a public institution; are you just not on my level? personally I'm relieved some of the people stuck at microsoft actually give a shit, probably not enough of them, but it's still a good thing. I'm not in the tech sector but I can appreciate the fact that change has to come from individuals who are toiling within our current system - and that most definitely includes people willing to speak up against the awful shit the c-suite is responsible for choosing to engage in.
I'm not just talking about employment. At some point, we all engage in something that leads to something immoral and unethical.