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Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to Google

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created: June 6, 2025, 1:36 p.m. | updated: June 6, 2025, 3:53 p.m.

Google back then prided itself on broadcasting its Best Place To Work award, won year after year after year. It was very important that every promising young engineer thought of Google as the dream job where everyone is happy. When you joined Google, you were quickly overwhelmed by massive amounts of corporate jargon—a hundred opaque project names, TLAs for everything etc. It was at Google that I learned that no, capitalists are actually literally the same as Captain Planet villains. But before I got into political theory, it was Google who demonstrated to me what is capitalism, firsthand up close.

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