What I learned is that people in Silicon Valley actually do drink the Kool-Aid. They may come from top universities, be technically knowledgeable, make a million dollars a year but yeah, I can't think of a more charitable word than "moron".
how about just naivety? until you truly get burned, you'd want to believe that other people would have good intentions.
If you move away and persist with the high pay and excessive resource acquisition, then congrats- you've just entered the category of being another needlessly greedy human, like Mollusk.
Basically these people are living in a cocoon. They get a nice house and salary but in exchange the corporation gets their body and soul.
Let's not blame good people for the contemptible actions of those exploiting them. We want to encourage more good people who channel their passion into their work (and hopefully that results in progress), and put the contemptible people into metaphorical boxes via laws and regulations to protect others from the harm they cause.
If shitty people are still getting wildly wealthy and we keep churning out burned out cynical people in the process, that’s not progress nor sustainable.
Either way they share the blame.
Sometimes a victim is just a victim.
It is. It totally is naivety.
I find it incredibly odd that if someone goes to, say, a Brazilian slum showing off their expensive stuff people are fine with labeling them naive when (not if) they get robbed
Some people have been so sheltered from reality that they'd put their hands in the mouth of a lion and be surprised when the lion bites it off. At some point it is indeed naivety. And on this specific case it's not even like said billionaires are trying hard to fake decency
They're drinking the Kool-Aid because the companies give them just enough of the real stuff. Obviously this isn't true for everyone and there are people in the industry there who learn over time, but there's just too many people in the region who believe in the propaganda.
The syndrome is not limited to Silicon Valley or to the 21st Century. I remember very clearly my father almost sixty years ago remarking with disgust that some scientific organization had given an award to Union Carbide, which was notorious for bad treatment of its scientists.