Well, he hated working for a company where engineers were second-class citizens, and all the staff were treated as fighting cocks.

I'd imagine that at Facebook, engineers are treated as first class citizens. I dislike Facebook as a product, and I'm not sure I trust Zuckerberg, but I really respect the company. Roughly 200 engineers running a tech product that millions of grandmas use is no mean feat. I bet they don't treat their engineers as mere cogs in a machine.

FYI, it's been a while since FB was 200 engineers. The average size of the summer intern class itself is about 200.

What else is new.

Bloggers get rich by getting your attention, not by helping you.

To extend upon that, bloggers get rich by getting your attention, which does not actually require they practice, subscribe to or even believe what they are telling you.

However, this is not a blogger. Also: Schopenhauer[1].

[1] Famously did not abide by his own philosophy, which does not make it a single bit less insightful or valuable.

Was ready to make the same comment. Especially most philosophers working on ethical issues didn't follow their own propositions.

Hypocrisy is the norm with much of what passes through here.

At least GS employees don't have any pretensions to holiness.

I'd much rather work with people who are honest with themselves about their motivations than who try to push the suffering under the surface with bullshit rationalizations like that in the post.

Heh - well, some of them have pretensions to holiness http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1226114/Goldman-Sach...

(I do know people there who are very nice also)

It isn't hypocritical. Facebook is a giant startup, after all. Perhaps much of the loose, casual culture still remains there, and you don't have to worry about the corporate shell games and hierarchy that financial firms like GS would have in scads.

Downvoters who may not know better: it's generally expected that if you downvote someone, you will accompany that with an explanation of why you downvoted.

We're here to communicate, not bicker over popularity contests.

What is the karma threshold to get down voting ability?