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by bentt 105 days ago
If they ever do anything again it will be a miracle. Meta is where smart people go to trade in their ambition and morals for stock grants and golden handcuffs.
2 comments

it's not a bad trade!
Trading away your morals is definitely bad in a philosophical sense. Does selling your soul to the devil have a happy ending in any of the fairy tales?
I would trade in my ambition, though.
>Meta is where smart people go to trade in their ambition and morals for stock grants and golden handcuffs.

Only Meta? Why not most of SV that's driven by ad revenue and data collection? Which big-tech company that pays crazy money is actually making the world a better place?

Meta is so driven by it though that it alone holds more than 5 of the 10 largest GDPR fines.