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If you believe Facebook is terrible, isn't taking a high-paid position there and gamifying their internal processes in your favor while not helping a flounderin
by alecb 4y ago
If you believe Facebook is terrible, isn't taking a high-paid position there and gamifying their internal processes in your favor while not helping a floundering business plug the holes in its sinking ship the real way to take direct action? If several hundred people independently did this on their own (and perhaps not even intentionally), it could have a meaningful impact in taking down one of the worst corporations in human history.
- winphone1974 4y agoYou're essentially promoting the old "bringing them down from the inside" defense, which next to "I was only following orders" is the biggest lie we tell ourselves in order to sleep better
- ben_w 4y agoThat feels like the wrong model to me. I don't want to work for FAANG for various reasons, but their negative externalities are either things I'd have no connection with or be in a position to push back against. Sure, the bosses may say "do it anyway" and my only counter would then be to leave, but I expect most people in FAANG aren't actually connected to $relevant_controversy. At least, that's my impression from (mostly) the outside.
- sgtnoodle 4y agoThat sounds like a rather depressing, unfulfilled existence to me. It's like someone getting a job with a military defence contractor, then sitting at their desk doing crossword puzzles for a decade.