#moralism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #moralism, aggregated by home.social.
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The thing that drove Dickens forward into a form of art for which he was not really suited, and at the same time caused us to remember him, was simply the fact that he was a moralist, the consciousness of “having something to say.” He is always preaching a sermon, and that is the final secret of his inventiveness. For you can only create if you can care.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1939), “Charles Dickens,” sec. 6, Inside the Whale (1940-03-11)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/74800/
#quote #quotes #quotation #author #caring #commitment #creativity #investment #moralism #preaching #writing
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The Pessimists Archive jogs “our collective memories about the hysteria, technophobia and moral panic that often greets new technologies, ideas and trends.”
https://pessimistsarchive.org/
#pessimism #KnowledgeBlindness #memory #hysteria #Technology #moralism #innovation #trends
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“Ultimately every quarter the executives at Google meet the board and they need to be reporting up into the right projections on growth and revenue.
Those are the key objectives of shareholder capitalism.
If Sundar [Pichai, Google CEO] went to the board and said:
“Morally we need to leave $10bn on the table. Let Microsoft have this contract,” he’d be fired in an instant.”
- Meredith Whittaker, @signalapp CEO
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“Ultimately every quarter the executives at Google meet the board and they need to be reporting up into the right projections on growth and revenue.
Those are the key objectives of shareholder capitalism.
If Sundar [Pichai, Google CEO] went to the board and said:
“Morally we need to leave $10bn on the table. Let Microsoft have this contract,” he’d be fired in an instant.”
- Meredith Whittaker, @signalapp CEO
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“Ultimately every quarter the executives at Google meet the board and they need to be reporting up into the right projections on growth and revenue.
Those are the key objectives of shareholder capitalism.
If Sundar [Pichai, Google CEO] went to the board and said:
“Morally we need to leave $10bn on the table. Let Microsoft have this contract,” he’d be fired in an instant.”
- Meredith Whittaker, @signalapp CEO
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“Ultimately every quarter the executives at Google meet the board and they need to be reporting up into the right projections on growth and revenue.
Those are the key objectives of shareholder capitalism.
If Sundar [Pichai, Google CEO] went to the board and said:
“Morally we need to leave $10bn on the table. Let Microsoft have this contract,” he’d be fired in an instant.”
- Meredith Whittaker, @signalapp CEO
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“Ultimately every quarter the executives at Google meet the board and they need to be reporting up into the right projections on growth and revenue.
Those are the key objectives of shareholder capitalism.
If Sundar [Pichai, Google CEO] went to the board and said:
“Morally we need to leave $10bn on the table. Let Microsoft have this contract,” he’d be fired in an instant.”
- Meredith Whittaker, @signalapp CEO
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next they'll be sacking teachers for wearing 'inappropriate' clothing.