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Re:Facebook staff now to be known as “Metamates” by andrei_says_ on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @08:03PM (#30355149)
Please read Dan Lyons’ book Disrupted about what life is like working for a cult-y startup and seeing the insanity while having to wait for your options to vest.

The chapter on the bozos is worth the cost of the book alone.

Re:Facebook staff now to be known as “Metamates” by JimmyAustin on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @10:01PM (#30355871)
Chaos Monkeys (and the section extracted by Vanity Fair here: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/how-mark-zuckerberg-...) is probably a more relevant comparison.

"Facebook is full of true believers who really, really, really are not doing it for the money, and really, really will not stop until every man, woman, and child on earth is staring into a blue-bannered window with a Facebook logo. Which, if you think about it, is much scarier than simple greed. The greedy man can always be bought at some price, and his behavior is predictable. But the true zealot? He can’t be had at any price, and there’s no telling what his mad visions will have him and his followers do."

Re:Facebook staff now to be known as “Metamates” by kbelder on Thursday February 17, 2022 @05:13PM (#30379379)
That seems like a reinterpretation of the classic C. S. Lewis quote:

"Of all the tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under the omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber barons cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”"

Re:Facebook staff now to be known as “Metamates” by buttonpusher on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @11:23PM (#30356332)
And if you would prefer parody, try Dave Eggers' "The Circle" and "The Every". The latter is particularly relevant, and had me laughing out loud.
Re:Facebook staff now to be known as “Metamates” by Minor49er on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @08:25PM (#30368449)
It's a shame that his follow up, Lab Rats, was written like he was apologizing for having made Disrupted