Many Microsoft employees don’t want the United States to be able to defend itself—to defend its citizens and resident aliens.
More than 150 Microsoft employees signed a letter demanding the tech giant cancel a $480 million contract to build a HoloLens for the Pentagon, saying they “refuse to create technology for warfare and oppression.”
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We are alarmed that Microsoft is working to provide weapons technology to the US military, helping one country’s government “increase lethality” using tools we built. We did not sign up to develop weapons, and we demand a say in how our work is used[.]
Never mind their ideology that our nation should not be allowed to have the tools necessary for our defense, their arrogance—employees demanding veto authority over their boss’ decision—is itself unacceptable.
These Precious Ones should be terminated for cause over their refusal to work the contract. Their insubordinate arrogance is just confirmation of the need for Microsoft to see the backs of them.
One more thing: if this is the best Silicon Valley—or the Redmond-Seattle environs—can do for employees, Microsoft should give serious thought to relocating.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-geeks-vs-the-infantrymen-11551225852
There will be war, sooner or later (odds say “sooner”) – as has been the case throughout human history. Our enemies would not merely terminate the employment of folks like these – some would be terminated, period.
pour encourager les autres