Shouldn’t do this no matter what ofc. But why the devs? Sure the devs are well paid and privileged. That’s mostly relative to others in society. They are still more cogs than anything.

Easier target, a couple of google devs hanging on a public square would do much to disincentivize others from working on similar products in the future.

At least executives can dream of hiding behind private security, for mere developers earning 300k/yr the situation isn’t so rosy.

It wouldn’t really disincentivize that much. You aren’t grasping the status quo and power dynamics of all of this. Double that $300K and even i would strongly consider risking my life for that amount of money for some time. That money is peanuts in the scheme of things but is enormous to many, many people.

Seriously. If Google doubled that money and the only way for me to be safe would be to stay in some glorified prison while working, I’d probably do it for a few years.

All you’re doing is pointing out how bad the power dynamics are and attacking the weakest and least powerful parts of said dynamics. When there are so many simple ways to get around this sort of scheming. Mine is one example. When you’re talking about cogs. It is extremely easy to replace them. It is sad you want to attack the working class (in this situation it’s privileged workers making a lot but in terms of the system, they fit into this).