alt Hacker NewsIt must be exhausting having someone like that (the person you replied to) in your life. So negative, judgmental, and filled with hate. Have to be careful about everything you do and say around them or you’ll be labeled as some kind of -ist or destroying the world.
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Garbage comment. I hate many subsets of people (mostly those that value money over human life + dignity) and it's quite easy not have it impact my life at all. Just as I'm sure Zuckerberg sleeps soundly as well.
Hate is a very human emotion and I'm not going to let the ghouls that prefer money over humans to try and dictate what is considered good manners in polite society (hint, helping create the misery machine isn't good manners).
The "woe is me card" is getting overplayed. These Metamates have proven time after time that they strictly care about money and nothing else. Maybe if some of them tried to start unionizing efforts I'd have more sympathy but these people are mostly ghouls that do not care about humanity so I'm giving them the same courtesy they give seniors who get scammed on their platforms.
If you don't want people to actively hate you and your terrible life decisions that negative impact everyone on the planet, maybe step away and think about what you've done? They make enough money to afford a therapist. They have the skills to literally work at any company on the planet. What is the excuse?
Y’all are not good at reading comprehension, is the only label I’ll apply to you here. I’ve had good friends work for Meta, and I don’t judge them for it. I wouldn’t work there, because how I feel about the company means I can’t feel good about myself contributing to it in any significant way. Other people will feel differently, and, again, that’s fine.
But if you fundamentally disagree with a system, trying to avoid contributing to it in any way makes sense! Whether it’s making the algorithm or addictive more farming out moderation to underpaid contractors or building a cool open source library for frontend coding or whatever, you can choose not to do it.
Or you can say, my contribution is not meaningful enough to the broader organization for me to worry about my place in it. Or you can say, I will siphon money out of the beast and use it for good. You are still contributing to it, but how you feel about it is up to you.