Let's recap on a tiny slice of what tech companies and social media websites such as Twitter have done to humanity just within the last decade:
- hoard wealth from all over the globe, rarely if ever contribute a cent back to local communities
- hoard wealth from our physical realm into the digital realm, even as our physical world crumbles around us and homelessness explodes
- everyone is a user whether you want to be or not, everyone is constantly impacted at all times
- moronic business practice which must require constant creation of new humans to sustain and screeches when people are not pumping out babies
- scientifically makes us more depressed, more impatient, more angry, more sleep deprived, among a host of other maladies, even if you are not a user
- creates extinction level environmental degradation all day every day
- amplifies all forms of inequalities: the “rich” gets “richer” and the “poor” gets “poorer”
- creates highly suffocated higher-education system where every student is a drone trained specifically for whatever their tech overlord wishes for, with no room for anything that does not directly lead to profit e.g. caring for other humans
- pretends to be paragons of morality with all sorts of feel good slogans such as “diversity ad inclusion”, but works closely with the military to bomb other countries
- the algorithm makes it so that the more cruel and selfish people become, the more profits
Now everywhere I see,
“Wahhh, I'm an Ex-Meta, Ex-Twitter, Ex-Amazon, Ex-Google software engineer who just got laid off, will you hire me so I can continue to contribute to one of the above destructive agenda???????”
You work literally contributed towards military propaganda, deepened economic inequalities, destroyed of our ecosystem, and has long hosted Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, spies and figureheads working for various dictatorships from around the world.
You made our lives worse for personal gain. No sympathy for laid off tech workers until they find their conscience.