Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis at Meta

Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by 0xDEF on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @08:46AM (#35538767)

High-income Westerners do like to engage in activities that make them appear like mindless consumer zombies.

In Denmark the highest income households have small cheap TVs they can hide away while low income households have big 4K TVs as the main attraction in their living room. The reason is that the former don't want to appear like passive mindless consumer zombies who watch TV.

It is an extremely superficial mindset but wearing a VR headset is literally the most 1984 consumer zombie thing you could possibly.

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Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by 4ggr0 on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @10:01AM (#35539804)

Why does it matter if I'm gaming while looking at a screen which is half a metre away, or while looking at a screen which is in front of my face and allows me to move around, in fact making me less like a zombie because I don't have to be stationary.

It's been a couple of months since I've done anything in VR, but I don't understand why you're being so overly dramatical about it, comparing it to 1984 and consumerist zombies.

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Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by ChuckNorris89 on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @11:26AM (#35541364)

Rich Scandinavians are difficult to understand. If you're rich you gotta look poor because poor people try to look rich.

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Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by 4ggr0 on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @04:34PM (#35546416)

I think this can be said about lots of nouveau riche/old rich/poor people. But maybe Scandinavia is different :)

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