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Re:Ask HN: Would you go work for Facebook ("Meta")? by solardev on Thursday July 11, 2024 @02:17PM (#40939204)
Nope, they could pay me ten million a year and I'd say no. OK but fine, everyone has their price. If they paid me a billion a year I might say yes, then just work for a month or two and then donate most of it to charity.

While I do appreciate some of their products (React which I use, Quest which I don't have), I think by and large their revenue makers (Facebook, Instagram, I don't know what else they have) are a net negative to society. The commodification of community for profit was a bad move and will eventually result, IMO, in the worldwide downfall of democracies. I think our kids will have it pretty rough in no small part because of Meta, but hey, at least we got to share vacation photos and cat videos.

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