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Re:John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS ... by saagarjha on Saturday August 30, 2025 @05:32AM (#45073264)
Yeah I'm making the world a better place by earning 500k a year doing a bad job to slow down this company. Look at how much good I am doing sorry I can't hear you over my paycheck clearing
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Re:John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS ... by komali2 on Saturday August 30, 2025 @07:06AM (#45073663)
Activism doesn't require participation in a poverty cult. Any socialist in a nation like the USA or the UK is by someone's lens a champagne socialist. Let's not participate in this tired trope.
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Re:John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS ... by bonoboTP on Saturday August 30, 2025 @08:58AM (#45074243)
Who said anything about socialism? There are many ways to criticize Meta from non-socialist angles.
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Re:John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS ... by saagarjha on Sunday August 31, 2025 @05:10AM (#45081691)
I don't think you need to be poor to protest injustice. I just think that joining Meta so that you can "bring it down from the inside" is unlikely to be effective and very easy to justify to yourself.
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