“The action of identifying oneself to an excessive degree with someone or something else, especially to the detriment of one's individuality or objectivity.”
Its a common theme in the tech world.
Therapists always work within boundaries of confidentiality when considering any and all client disclosure.
Even during supervision client names and contact details are not disclosed.
Ramping up cruelty serves the convenient secondary purpose of psychological layoffs - burning people out into quitting en masse (or providing opportunity to mark them Bad Leavers and retain shares) in preparation for the supposed AI productivity gains on the remainder.
I find it unlikely many (as a percentage of them all) tech workers are really doing this thing.
Weird article….
How else would health practitioners have conversations about how to better treat their patients?
I mean, when was _Facebook_ in any way credibly doing the 'do no evil' thing? I can kind of see how people could buy it, and how it might even have been somewhat true for a bit, about Google, but Facebook's whole basic thing seems inherently... well, morally ambiguous, at the very best, from the start.
