On Monday, Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, officially secured a deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion. As two MBA students hoping to build careers around making technology platforms safer, we have been anxiously following the twists and turns of Elon’s courtship with Twitter’s board of directors over the past two weeks. Since the board’s decision to accept Elon’s offer, Twitter itself has exploded with hot takes from armchair experts and actual experts on the buyout’s potential consequences (or lack thereof). However, we have seen far fewer perspectives from those viewing Twitter as a potential future employer.

Intersectionality, a common term in social justice, is a concept that different social identities, such as gender, race, and disability are intertwined and create “overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination and oppression” according to the Oxford Dictionary. Systems of oppression include ableism, racism, sexism, and heterosexism. Everyone on this planet experiences varying levels and forms of oppressions and discrimination navigating this world.

Surveillance capitalism, today’s dominant tech business model, profits by extracting deeply personal information to manipulate and commodify us humans and our experiences. The Social Dilemma on Netflix, whistleblower Frances Haugen, and others have helped raise awareness of the harms of these business models. In its recent report, All Tech Is Human correctly points out that tech companies should adopt a stakeholder perspective, rather than just maximizing shareholder value. Unfortunately, under capitalism as we know it, corporations rarely heed calls that they should work to improve society unless incentives are also aligned.