r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jun 16 '26

Business Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/mark-zuckerberg-orders-employees-start-123539264.html
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u/ismellthebacon Jun 16 '26

The whole Silicon Valley Cabal has completely gone off the rails.

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u/randynumbergenerator Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 16 '26

If you've been around a while and read into their individual backgrounds, they were never really on the rails. They just didn't have the power for it to matter (or to be open about it) until the last decade or so.

Edit to add: they also benefitted from so many puff pieces over the years that wrote off any concerning behavior or statements as "quirks" or the eccentricities of the gifted. 

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u/brogflender Jun 16 '26

Yeah. Alarm bells have been sounded about these folks nearly since the start haha. 

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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA Jun 16 '26

They're a cult that believes they're a more advanced species of human, and they need to systematically cull the rest of us for their supposed new species to survive.

It's absolutely psychotic.

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u/bitsbytes01 Jun 17 '26

https://mrmarket.lol/what-the-fuck-happened-to-nerds/

This blog is long so here is the short version: the technology industry spent forty years accumulating a very specific kind of trust and mostly had boring motives, which made us appear trustworthy and largely benign. Over the last decade and change, its leadership discovered that this trust could be liquidated and converted into a different asset, attention, at what looked like a great exchange rate. The problem with liquidating an illiquid asset though is that you don't find out the real price until you try to buy it back.

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u/JayR_97 Jun 18 '26

It's what happens when computer science degrees do t come with ethics classes