If you're serious, that feels overly broad. I know a lot of very good Googlers. Organizations are a bit of an abstraction in how we organize people.
A blacklist seems like a fine idea here, but it's important it be specific enough to pick out just the bad actors.
The way I manage my life, I want to make sure the work I do makes the world a better place. For the past many years, virtually everything I've done has been aligned with advancing humanity (education, medical, etc.), and has been open-source. I'm fortunate enough to be somewhat well-known for a former project, so I've always been able to find jobs like that. My values state that:
- If that meant working at a good subdivision in an evil organization, I'd do that.
- If it meant doing evil work for a good organization, I wouldn't.
- Heck, if it meant helping reform an evil, powerful organization to be good, that seems like worthwhile work too.
I haven't been in a position to need to manage those conflicts, mind you, but that's how I'd play them according to my ethical compass, if they came up.
I'll also mention: It's also important to be aware of people's situations and more complex trade-offs. Consider a person who does scammy sales pitch telemarketing calling during dinner to sell you on snake oil medicines. Now, consider that they make minimum wage, it's the only job in their town, and they have a five-year-old they need to feed. I'm in no position to judge.
I am in position to judge Ben, Borbala, Phillip, and Sergey.
A blacklist seems like a fine idea here, but it's important it be specific enough to pick out just the bad actors.
The way I manage my life, I want to make sure the work I do makes the world a better place. For the past many years, virtually everything I've done has been aligned with advancing humanity (education, medical, etc.), and has been open-source. I'm fortunate enough to be somewhat well-known for a former project, so I've always been able to find jobs like that. My values state that:
- If that meant working at a good subdivision in an evil organization, I'd do that.
- If it meant doing evil work for a good organization, I wouldn't.
- Heck, if it meant helping reform an evil, powerful organization to be good, that seems like worthwhile work too.
I haven't been in a position to need to manage those conflicts, mind you, but that's how I'd play them according to my ethical compass, if they came up.
I'll also mention: It's also important to be aware of people's situations and more complex trade-offs. Consider a person who does scammy sales pitch telemarketing calling during dinner to sell you on snake oil medicines. Now, consider that they make minimum wage, it's the only job in their town, and they have a five-year-old they need to feed. I'm in no position to judge.
I am in position to judge Ben, Borbala, Phillip, and Sergey.