• apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    Major props to those causing a ruckous internally there. That said, they likely fully expected a backlash and likely didn’t care. Anyone who cares can be replaced by another sycophant, at a reduced salary even.

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      15 days ago

      You get what you pay for. They’ll be drawing from “the best of the rest” in a dwindling pool.

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        15 days ago

        They pay well enough to get anyone who doesn’t care about principles. Plenty people in tech like that.

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        They don’t need the very best to make profit for a very long time, especially in a friendly regulatory regime. Check IBM for reference.

        They own the social media market and have enough capital to acquire any plausible competitor, as have done in the past.

        Losing top talent is only a significant price to pay if the firm or its competitors are still building new stuff that affects their bottom line. Meta is happy raking in the social media-ad profits. Google is happy raking in the search-ad profits. They’re all busy getting more money out of the markets they’ve monopolized, not competing.

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    Man they’re not even doing the dog-whistle thing anymore, huh? Fucking disgusting, I hope he experiences the everlasting warmth of a car fire in the near future.

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    Imagine this being your red line. Your totally prepared to work at Facebook, because there’s absolutely nothing dodgy about that, but suddenly his transphobia is a problem.

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      15 days ago

      Well, Frances Haugen left a while ago. Some people did go.

      And, well, the best time to leave Facebook was to never join. The second best time is now.

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      15 days ago

      It’s ok to let their platform spread misinformation and hatred that affects millions, but it’s not OK when that comes back and bites them in the ass.

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      Nah Meta is widely regarded as one of the best employers in the world. I’d take 300k/usd year and all of the benefits too. Let’s stop pretending that traditional companies are somehow better so you either don’t work for any corporation or actually work for one that provides incredibly benefits to you so you have the luxury to give back and steer the ship towards good a little bit.

      Personally, I wouldn’t but this is the reasoning most employees have when joining Meta.

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        No I understand that they pay very well what I’m saying is it just seemed odd that you would go to work for such a company without knowing that you were essentially walking with the devil.

        If you make peace with that then absolutely fine, but it then seems a bit odd to turn around and be suddenly offended by something as if they hadn’t already been doing stuff like that all along.

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      It’s not just transphobia in these changes. You are also allowed to say that women should be/are property.

      Facebook has a history of facilitating genocide (Indonesia, Myanmar). It’s clear that if it starts in the US, Facebook will be happy to help.