Raghavan and his cronies worked to oust Ben Gomes, a man who dedicated a good portion of his life to making the world’s information more accessible, in the process burning the Library of Alexandria to the ground so that Pichai could make more than 200 million dollars a year.
And Raghavan — a manager, hired by Sundar Pichai, a former McKinsey man and a manager by trade — is an example of everything wrong with the tech industry. Despite his history as a true computer scientist with actual academic credentials, Raghavan chose to bulldoze actual workers and replace them with toadies that would make Google more profitable and less useful to the world at large.
He earlier calls Raghavan a “management consultant wearing an engineer costume”.
What is interesting to me is that two of the main people responsible for destroying decades of work at Google are both Indian. It seems as though those people have no sense of pride in their work, or for serving the greater good of society. They seem morally and spiritually bankrupt. They have taken charge of something greater men built. They have little understanding or care for its purpose. They see it only as something to be exploited. When their exploitation inevitably leads to the decline of Google they will move on to exploiting the next thing they can get their hands on.
It’s a less obvious and longer term version of Africans tearing apart their local infrastructure to sell the materials for a moderate profit. Just as that behaviour and mindset are typical of Africans, Pichai’s and Raghavan’s are typical of Indians.
It’s because the people running the tech industry are no longer those that built it.
Well said.
Not to say this behaviour is exclusive to those people. The “rot economics” he talks about is widespread.
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