Re:Meta Employees Denounce Interference in Brazilian Elections
by mcmcmc on Monday October 26, 2026 @02:54PM
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Your argument would carry more weight if the employees weren’t getting paid absurd sums of money. It’s very easy to stick around and keep getting rich while signing petitions and virtue signaling on social media.
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Re:Meta Employees Denounce Interference in Brazilian Elections
by locknitpicker on Monday October 26, 2026 @04:25PM
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> Your argument would carry more weight if the employees weren’t getting paid absurd sums of money.
What a stupid appeal to morality. This is not the middle ages where you can only aspire to do the right thing if you abdicate any worldly possession. I am paid well because I stood up for myself in contract negotiations, and no keyboard hero is going to put my sense of right and wrong into question because I earn more than you.
Re:Meta Employees Denounce Interference in Brazilian Elections
by mcmcmc on Monday October 26, 2026 @06:00PM
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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
— Upton Sinclair
Re:Meta Employees Denounce Interference in Brazilian Elections
by keybored on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @02:22AM
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I have heard about a few things that the 300K a year SC proletariat have done. I can’t remember offhand right now, but they did apparently force management to go back on some unethical stuff.
But on the whole we see the world that we live in. I guess it would be ten times worse without their quiet protests?
What I do know is that SC is the capital of Effective Altruism, which contains the idea that the best way to do good in the world is to earn a lot of money and then give it to “effective causes”. And I expect no holistic or systemic action from those of such convenient, myopic beliefs.