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This is how I would communicate and do communicate when people are making morally borderline choices.

The most common reaction for people is to ignore the moral implications, a la wall street "We are unlocking value".

If boz went 180 degrees and said "welp, thats it growth is over, we have a major disaster in a few years" - the GREATER force would murder him, namely shareholders.

Even now, Facebooks greatest pain is coming from the hit to its wealth, not to the number of uninstalls coming via "deletefacebook".

At this scale and size for a large top tier tech company, the man in charge is expected to not rock the boat. Any course correction occurs slowly, or through crisis.

Apparently we are doing it by crisis



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