Technology

I wouldn’t work for Facebook if they tripled my current salary.

Okay, tap the breaks. Triple my salary and I'm retiring very comfortably before I hit 50. Would happily take the Zuck Bucks for that kind of cash, especially if I knew I'd be ushered into the Leisure Class ten years earlier.

Also... who else are you working for that's less toxic? Like, Fuck Zuck, but he's hardly an outlayer in the world of narcissist CEOs.

Is AI the final bubble they'll inflate? Usually some new tech gets hyped when the old tech fails. See the progression through deep learning, Blockchain, NFT. Or will they do robotics and suddenly it's robots everywhere. Maybe quantum computing.

Tbf, Tesla probably sold more cyber trucks than Horizons got users.

i think meta largely survives because they got people addicted to instagram, FB via propaganda, and now whatsapp. if it was just solely FB they have, it wouldve been a different sotry.

You do realize that the problem is that people need money? Yea, many would likely have a choice where to work but many might Not have had options.

What is needed is financial basic freedom for everyone. Countries need to sit down and figure out how to make it work because as it stands, jobs have turned into a form of slavery by design.

Why stop there? Fuck all employees of the owning class. How dare they be employed

I saw an interview with some anonymized meta employees and all of them knew they were doing fucked up stuff. Then they said they were doing it for the stocks the company give them after x years worth millions.

So yeah, fuck them.

Really depends on if it is c-suite or the cleaners tbh.

I’m not gonna say ‘Fuck wendy the cleaner who desperately took the first job available to support her sick mother’.

Fuck the brass tho, obvs.

You must be new around these parts. Facebook (and the rest of big tech) are monopolists. For the past ~26 years, the tech industry has been using illegal anticompetitive tactics to suppress competition and destroy potential competitors. The government has done nothing, because they're stupid and think "big = good".

An example is Instagram. It was a start up that was growing rapidly, and actually became a threat to Facebook. What did Facebook do? They placed a massive bid to buy the company at like 10x their actual market value. It's an offer so huge that every investor in Instagram would support the deal even if the founders were against it.

A sane government would see that as an obvious anticompetitive decision, and block the merger. Facebook should instead use that money to improve their own product and compete fairly. Obviously, that didn't happen, the merger went through, and Facebook is still the owner of Instagram. Users and the tech industry at large are worse off.

Look at TikTok's huge success. If they weren't a Chinese company, they probably would have met a similar fate. Unfortunately for Facebook, they weren't allowed to buy a Chinese company.

all those employees making a new company that is unionized private non-stock and does better than Zuck’s Facebook

Facebook thrived because it got access to cheap money through Carlyle Investments. They used that cheap money to buy up a bunch of their competitors (most famously, Instagram, but there's 108 different acquisitions in the Wikipedia list alone) and either insource them or close them out.

Very real possibility that a gaggle of Facebook refugees form a new company, get some decent Series A or B financing, start to take off on user numbers, and grow big enough to be worth adding to some bigger firm's M&A list.

But the idea that they're going to capture the 1B+ user Facebook market share? On what hardware? With what IT support? In partnership with which ISPs? Through which advertisement agencies? Come on, dude. Think about how these businesses function in practice. Setting aside how many "Facebook Clone" companies have flopped, there's a value-add to Facebook that comes directly from their deplorable business model. You can't make a "better Facebook" without sacrificing what makes the Facebook revenue play work. That's before asking how you're going to win a headbutt fight with a dinosaur.

It would take a lot to replace Facebook at this point, not only that but they are into much more then just social media. It would be awesome to see something happen, but even Google failed to beat them.

That being said, I can't tell you how many times people started a business network, resource, etc on Reddit over the past 15 years. They don't work, people get bored, people show up for the first few days then forget they exist, etc. It would be awesome to help others get to the point where they could launch and become successful, but it takes time and every on both sides, and most people aren't willing to do the work either way long term.

Cool and they well eat and pay their bills with unicorn farts and rainbows.