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Dunno man, there is nothing they do at Meta that is in anyway considered "good", or is there?
I mean, looking at the recent posts about ICE hiring with bonus, you'd think taking that offer is also fine when you need money?
I really hope you can see the difference between a tech company hire and dudes on the streets playing SS
There's no difference when the tech company is used to push propaganda supporting the SS and the workers don't stand up to it. They are complicit and therefore responsible.
Meta is largely the reason for the current state of the world via their purposeful boosting of alt-right talking points. They've helped incite a genocide ffs. They're not actively on the streets shooting people but this is what the company pushed for
I'm not American but I am in tech and have been unemployed since January and even though my financial situation is grim, Meta and Palantir are two companies I would never, ever work for or even apply to. There's always plenty of other companies to apply to (which is what I did and I start somewhere tomorrow!)
The difference is smaller than you think
They certainly think they do a lot of good. We sit off in the distance reading the latest Reddit threads about whatever latest outrage has happened, and it looks all negative to us. But from their point of view they are serving 3 billion people’s needs to connect and network.
I’m not saying I see it that way. But you seem to imply that they all know they work for an Evil Empire but they truly don’t see it that way. There are a lot of young people there who don’t look past the cachet of working for a well known and successful company. And there are wiser ones who genuinely believe the good outweighs the bad.