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Top Meta executive said the company's name change was a success because it beat out coverage of the 'Facebook Papers' revelations (www.businessinsider.com)

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Top Meta executive said the company's name change was a success because it beat out coverage of the 'Facebook Papers' revelations::Meta's Chris Cox explained to employees the company's rebrand succeeded in driving press coverage amid whistleblower disclosures.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Some software engineers are fine with temporarily casting aside their morals in exchange for a north of 200k USD salary.

[+] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's like someone saying "I didn't make the rules" while enforcing them. It removes exactly zero responsibility.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"I was only following ze orders"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Exactly.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you have a skill set that lets you choose between working an for an ethical company for 100k and working for an evil company for 200k, it's on you if you choose the latter.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What if I pick the 100k one... then get sick, have medical bills, can't work anymore, and end up in debt? Because, let me tell you, being ethical only got me more insomnia.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

What if I pick the 200k one and have to live with the fact that I made the world a worse place for everyone else? Being selfish is fine of course, but I don't even earn 50k, 100k would already be ridiculous. I can't imagine the difference between 100k and 200k being that big of an improvement to one's life to justify increasing the suffering of others so much.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Then how would the 200k job magically make things better? The kind of medical bills you're talking about aren't payable unless you're a 1%er. You're screwed either way. And I say that as someone who also has chronic insomnia.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

BS. Meta engineers can work anywhere they want. It is absolutely their fault that they choose to continue enabling Meta. Meta couldn't survive without them.

Many other professions have ethical standards. Software engineering should be no different.