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[–] [email protected] 140 points 3 weeks ago

meta employees need to unionize and strike. honest to god for the good of all mankind. facebook is an incredibly dangerous propaganda tool

[–] [email protected] 84 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Good! How else will the Engineers, Researchers, Support Staff and Coders continue to Improve the Product if the EXECUTIVES don't make More?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, you don't need those people anymore. Because AI. Or some shit.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 3 weeks ago

I did nazi that coming.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago

Surprised Pikachu face.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Good. If you still work for Meta, you're either a garbage prson, a bootlicker or a techbro.

Get stepped on, and not in a kinky way.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

There are also people staying to try to unionize or sabotage the company. Don't bundle them with the scabs. Quitting won't change much within meta.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They’re still working for a company that engages in mass data collection and selling people’s private info to the highest bidder. A union at the company doesn’t make that ethical.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Until it starts using its power to decide what technology and contracts are taken by the company. That's the endgame of the tech labor movement and the labor movement in a lot of industries that deal with ugly stuff.

Also there's no ethical production under capitalism.

By working for a company and thus make them dependent on your labor (to some degree) you have power. By not working for that company, you have no power.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Fair point.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

So much talent locked up in big tech. I wish they would all unionize and also leave and launch open source startups.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Open source still doesn't have a good funding model.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

open source startups are still part of the same ecosystem that fuels big tech. Big tech, being more powerful, can capture commons very easily and that's true for the vast majority of open-source code. The very concept of open-source was conceived by a person with the same ideological and cultural background of the tech oligarchs now in power.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I'm far from being a doomer. I just don't believe technology will save us. There are better ways.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

And all that only a tiny portion of the hate i feel for greedy billionaires who destroy the lives of millions because they want even more wealth and power

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

is this from I have no mouth and I must scream

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yep.

There was a point and click adventure harken Ellis helped with that fleshed the story out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

that was really fucked up and I don't know how I feel about playing a game about it but I'll probably end up doing it once of these days. truly "art" and not just dumb entertainment

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

The best end to the game has you help resolve what is wrong with these people and destroy AM.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

The year is 1788, and we are all French peasants...