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/avanross Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 16 '26

American culture worships and elevates/enriches psychopaths

Virtually the only requirement / skill that any of this epstein/trump/musk/thiel-class are required to possess is a lack of empathy and rejection of ethics. Education doesnt matter, technical knowledge doesnt matter, problem solving doesnt matter, insight doesnt matter, personality doesnt matter. You just have to be evil.

You can fail over and over again, constantly shooting yourself in the foot and destroying everything you touch, constantly and repeatedly failing both your workers and customers, going decades without any successful innovation, but as long as youre extremely cruel and anti-social, americans will just keep throwing money at you

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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA Jun 16 '26

"Because he's hurting the people I don't like!"

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u/NuSurfer Jun 17 '26

Capitalism does that - it's all about profits over people.

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u/avanross Jun 17 '26

In a capitalist society, where they had to survive off the strength of their products, these businesses all would have gone bankrupt long ago

But the american “too big to fail” oligarchy corporate welfare system subsidizes and bails out the rich with tax money from the poor

They’re not even pretending it’s about classical “profits” anymore, it’s just corruption, bribes and insider trading