Silicon Valley rips off the mask as tech CEOs veer right amid political turmoil
Published 1 min ago on June 6, 2020
By Nicole Karlis, Salon- Commentary
The times are a-changing in Silicon Valley. Once a reliable bastion of libertarianism from the CEOs at the top to the workers at the bottom, new schisms are forming between the workers and the owners — from white-collar software engineers unionizing at Kickstarter to Googlers and Amazon workers publicly denouncing their executives.
Yet as employees have begun to wake up to the many ways in which their employers exploited them in exchange for nap pods and free snacks, the titans of industry themselves appear to be showing their true colors. The pandemic prompted mass layoffs and swift changes in policy for many tech titans; yet coupled with the anti-police racism protests, we are starting to see the far-right soul of Silicon Valley’s leaders — belying the stereotype of technology as synonymous with progressivism.
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, profited tremendously off the pandemic, seeing his wealth rise $30 billion. Yet his empire still saw fit to stop paying a $2 an hour hazard pay bonus to its warehouse workers — a high-risk job. Putting them at risk has resulted in a lawsuit from warehouse workers, claiming the company put their families at risk.
Amazon continues to try and position itself as a progressive company, unlike other big corporations. Recently, Amazon tried to show solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement by tweeting “the inequitable and brutal treatment of Black people in our country must stop. Together we stand in solidarity with the Black community — our employees, customers, and partners — in the fight against systemic racism and injustice.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/silicon-valley-rips-off-the-mask-as-tech-ceos-veer-right-amid-political-turmoil/
Everyone of these "characters" reported in this commentary are full fledged libertarian assholes...........and to add further insult they paid zero, zilch, nada in taxes, and the state treasuries public was forced buy the bonds to support the infrastructure to have there building and employees business in states that competed against each other, and they are laughing all the way to the banks, and one of them got subsidized to launch into space, and he still basically got away with blackmailing a state government in essence...............
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