Awful people doing awful things. But never before in history have they had the tools to scale and amplify their behavior as they do today. As we continue to s

Awful people doing awful things. But never before in history have they had the tools to scale and amplify their behavior as they do today. As we continue to see more and more evidence of the deleterious effects social media has, I keep wondering how the people employed in this industry rationalize their contributions to things like this, and lack of meaningful action in response to it. Many Meta employees are here on HN. What are your thoughts when you read about how Meta seems ill-equipped and unmotivated to do anything about this? Do you care? Seems like Meta could just disable mom-run accounts for minors with the flip of a switch and make a positive difference. The fact that they don't speaks volumes. The rationalizations I've heard boil down to (a) money (b) nowhere else can you work on interesting technology innovations at the scale of Meta (c) if Meta didn't enable this someone else would and (d) idealistically hoping you can effect more positive change from within the beast than outside of it Is there something else?