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procaryote ◴[] No.45072629[source]
The problem when working for Meta is that if you do a good job, you've helped make the world worse... so the real heroes are the people wasting money and reducing efficiency

If you're at all competent, go work somewhere else

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StopDisinfo910 ◴[] No.45073468[source]
That’s an extremely reductive view.

Whatever you think of Meta core products, they pay a ton of people to work on various open source projects, do R&D on things which are only tangentially related to social media like VR or data center tech.

There is worse way to get a paycheck to do what you are interested in.

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Garlef ◴[] No.45073490[source]
"It wasn't all bad. They built the Autobahn"
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wafflemaker ◴[] No.45073752{3}[source]
Few more years and they would've finished Polarbanen. The northern Norway railroad connecting Trondheim to Tromsø, far inside the Arctic Circle. Giving us $50 trains to Tromsø instead of $500 planes.

But my enthusiasm diminished after learning that they worked thousands people to death.

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1. procaryote ◴[] No.45074814[source]
> thousands people to death

I have some bad news to tell you about the overall number of dead related to that government

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2. wafflemaker ◴[] No.45076349[source]
You tell me, I'm from Poland. Talked to many older people, who remember the war. One thing that caught my attention, because it surfaced with every single old person I asked about the war: Germans/Nazis were horrible, but Russians/Soviets were an order of magnitude worse.

Funny thing that now many people don't even know that it was Russia and Germany BOTH that started the war. And they were supposed to attack Poland simultaneously, but Stalin, PR animal that he was, delayed Red Army's attack by one week, thereby creating the legend that it wasn't Russia that started the war.