[tennfown]

> if your only business is selling ads to scammers to prey on the elderly?

Don’t forget failed, mentally ill, manic rebrands that cost billions and go nowhere.

Oh, and enabling human traffickers.

[fusslo]

the ceo of a former company I was at demanded a rebrand like 6 months after our internal rebrand. Cost ~500k-800k USD.

Turned out he was schtupping the vp of the design company (his wife told the admin assistant during the divorce)

[robocat]

> Schtupping

Note that word isn't joint to tupping unless you're from Tasmania.

  Shtupping comes from Yiddish, while tupping comes from an old English/Scots agricultural term relating to rams.

I wonder what "commission" the VP received.

[bluefirebrand]

I wouldn't be surprised if a much larger proportion of big business and politics boiled down to this

Yeah there's lots of ethics rules and stuff about it but we've seen how little the upper class cares about that

Whenever a big business deal goes down, I tend to assume someone's getting sex or money out of the deal

Frankly there's already just so much corruption that we know about and it seems unlikely we know about all of it or even most of it

[a34729t]

A friend of mine has actually posited a variation of this as way to predict the outcomes of legal cases

[tracker1]

Hey, the VP is driving a new Ferrari... right after a new 8 figure deal.. weird.

[solid_fuel]

How now, that’s not fair. They also make a lot of money giving teenagers depression and selling them beauty products and chatbot companions.

[mxschumacher]

please stop being so mean, they also create echo chambers to kill political discourse (i.e. the foundation of democracy) and show the most inflammatory material to their users to pit them into a shouting match against each other

[solid_fuel]

Truly who could blame them though. They have to trap people in rage bubbles or they might make slightly less money!

I'm so tired of these double standards, nobody ever blames fentanyl manufacturers for making such an addictive product so why is everyone mad at facebook? All they did was poison discourse for a generation and provide material support to an autocrat.

[giantrobot]

> Oh, and enabling human traffickers.

Also the genocides.

[malfist]

Hey now that was an accident! They created a taskforce to prevent that from happening again, ignored all their recommendations and then laid them all off.

I'm sure meta learned their lesson

[giantrobot]

Big whoopsies on that one.