Meta employees aren’t DoorDash gig workers trying to feed families. These are well compensated workers. It’s okay to have the opinion that most white collar jobs do some harm somewhere, but pretending these are poor souls forced to work for meta because of lack of options is not a great take.

Furthermore the guy scanning the tickets doesn’t work for Ticketmaster, Meta employees work for and are well compensated for that work, by Meta. Big difference.

That being said, I still empathize with workers. I think people need to be treated like people and not some resource to be exploited.

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breve 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> I think people need to be treated like people and not some resource to be exploited.

Meta's business model is to treat people as a resource to be exploited. It's fundamentally how the business works.

Meta regards its users as cattle, as livestock. It's why Zuckerberg thinks Facebook users are "dumb fucks":

https://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-im...

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dangus 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There are definitely Meta employees who are not making especially high salaries like SWEs. Think about departments like support, graphic design, marketing, etc.

Most white collar workers do not have any luxury to stop working even if they are well-compensated.

Also, it’s not like you have a wildly great choice of ethical companies to work for as an employee. What percentage of corporations are truly ethical? What companies that compete with Meta are highly ethical? If I quit Meta who am I working for that has no ethical issues?

	▲	darth_avocado 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> There are definitely Meta employees who are not making especially high salaries like SWEs With very few exceptions, Meta employees are generally making more money within their domain as compared to what they would make working at other companies, which is always an option. > Most white collar workers do not have any luxury to stop working even if they are well-compensated It’s a false dichotomy: work for meta or be unemployed. Millions of white collar workers are doing fine not working for Meta. And questioning if any corporation is free from ethical problems does not absolve you from the responsibility of the outcomes of what you build. Some corporations are objectively worse than others. A corporation building systems to pay gig workers less than the minimum wage is going to be probably worse than a corporation that builds a design collaboration tool when it comes to ethics. You can choose to work for either and be well compensated for your work, but let’s not pretend you’re some poor soul trapped in a job that you can’t escape.