[rainyMammoth]

Why don't they revolt by quitting? I know not every employee is able to do that but I'm guessing that at Facebook the vast majority could switch job fairly easily.

Once Facebook realizes that they are losing good employees they are more likely to change those policies.

Unfortunately most Facebook employees want to continue getting outrageously paid at the 95 percentile of the market and soft "revolting" without risking their $$$. That tells a lot a bout their convictions.

[flmlta]

Leaving your position also leaves you without any power to enact change within the organization.

You can't win a game without playing it, in other words.

[alistairSH]

A normal engineer or designer doesn't have that power either way. The only power they have is staying or leaving.

Upper management, yeah, they might be able to effect change from within. But, even that is going to be severely limited in the face of a big-name founder like Zuckerberg.

[EGreg]

By the way, this means that Google and others should do business in China right? Doesn’t the same logic work on that level too?

[Barrin92]

I'm honestly not sure quitting is actually the most effective way to get what they want.

Managers and high profile people at companies like Facebook have a lot of leverage and can organise relatively easily because there's relatively few of them. The senior tech people and management need to recognise that they hold a ton of power because they basically run the place, their influence would be much better served by pressuring Facebook. It's Facebook who can't afford to lose them.

There needs to be some sort of class consciousness for the 'top 10% but not 0.1%'. They've got all the leverage in the world, and increasingly share no common ground with the owners of the business.

[Nition]

The linked article does say that some are doing just that, or at least threatening to:

> Two senior Facebook employees told The New York Times that they had informed their managers that they would resign if Mr. Zuckerberg did not reverse his decision. Another person, who was supposed to start work at the company next month, told Facebook they were no longer willing to accept a position at the company because of Mr. Zuckerberg’s decision.

[mehrdadn]

> I know not every employee is able to do that but I'm guessing that at Facebook the vast majority could switch job fairly easily.

Switch easily even right now? I imagine they'd lose something in the process...

[mstade]

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

[mehrdadn]

Yes, and this agrees with my point that it probably cannot be done "easily".

[david38]

Spoken like someone who doesn’t make that kind of money and never had to make that decision.

Facebook will not lose employees at their pay rate, they’ll just get different ones.

You are definitely correct in that soft revolting is a waste.

[herval]

This is akin to saying “love the country or leave it”.

If people have the chance to openly disagree with leadership, they probably can try to effect change - quitting is just giving up and letting those in favor of the status quo to keep driving decisions as they already do?