this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2026
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[–] ChaosSpectre@lemmy.zip 82 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Meta employees not unionizing at this point is their own fault. Like I feel for you, this situation is shit and its getting worse, but thats the thing, it has only ever gotten worse. Do something about it, fight for your rights, fight for the people you are harming with the work you submit to, fight for a future that isn't dogshit run by a literal lizard person.

Your complaints don't mean shit to the current govt, you need to take your fate into your own hands. Meta dies without you, you hold the power. Do you think the dude who made that company to creep on women really has the skills and ability to do your work?

This goes for all tech. Stop complaining about your work if you aren't going to do anything about it. You are probably the only ones capable of saving enough money to survive a job loss in this country right now, stop licking boots and complaining about the flavor.

[–] PRIMEcavitationfetishist@quokk.au 28 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

If you're still working for Facebook in 2026 you deserve a rope, not a union.

[–] homes@piefed.world 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

And to think, when I graduated from Parsons in 2016, I actually tried to apply for a job at Facebook…

Turns out I was already blacklisted in 2015 for a paper I published at SIGGRAPH calling their asses out.

Oops!

I walked up to their table at the Parsons career fair, and the two recruiters just looked at me and just said “no“. Like they just fucking knew who I was by sight.

LO to the fucking L

[–] FerrisEuler@programming.dev 26 points 4 days ago (2 children)

AI is the latest gimmick to avoid paying people a fair share of the profits. Hoarding profits is the only way anyone can afford to make $100 million before age 30 or be a billionaire by age 40. There is no other way to do it.

Pre-1860s: Have slaves do the work, to avoid paying fair wages

1860s-1920s: Have Chinese and low-wage immigrants do the work, to avoid paying fair wages

1930s: Plenty of unemployed, so no need to pay fair wages

1940s: War

1945-1960s: Lets try paying fair wages

1970s-early 2020s: That sucked! Offshore to Asia and Latin America and hire low wage foreigners, to avoid paying fair wages.

mid-2020s: Replace the humans with AI, to avoid paying fair wages

[–] TBi@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

1940s to 1960s. They weren’t paying fair wages out of the goodness of their hearts.

So many people died in the war that they didn’t have a big pool of desperate workers. So the workers had more leverage. I.e. if you don’t hire someone then there’s no one else to do it.

But population has exploded again, and now there are more desperate people who are willing to undercut each other.

The black plague reduced the work force so much that it is credited with helping create the middle class.

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Yup. It's why I don't hate AI itself, but the people behind creating and pushing it. The way to get tons of funding for AI was to push it on the world as the new way to avoid paying employees fairly or at all. It's just more money, power, and control for the few. Mostly the same few who already have lots of those things.

I understand that AI isn't human, but hating it seems sort of like hating a slave for taking your job instead of hating the slave owner or hating a knife for stabbing you instead of the guy holding the less stabby end of it.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 34 points 4 days ago (2 children)

lol

This has nothing to do with fucking AI. This is everything to do with fucking people and greedy capitalism.

[–] PRIMEcavitationfetishist@quokk.au 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What do you think "ai' is?

[–] end_stage_ligma@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

[avarice intensifies]

[–] FerrisEuler@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

AI is the new African slave

[–] LyingCake@feddit.org 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago

These posers are not businessmen who understand society. They are tech nerds without much general knowledge. They should quit making these unreal pronouncements. If I win the 40 billion powerball does that automatically make me a visionary with an eye to the future?

[–] starchylemming@lemmy.world 38 points 4 days ago (1 children)

work for the evil misery machine

be surprised to get caught in the evil misery machine

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago

It's proper Leopards Ate My Face shit!

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

...he types as he leaves for a 2-week vacation

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 4 days ago

It’s not vacation! He’s working from his yacht, with his family (fortunately they’ve got a separate suite and he only needs to see them for dinner). There’s upwards of 2 meetings a day and the helicopter rides back to the lunches with vendors take up so much time.

[–] Griffus@lemmy.zip 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Would never expect anything less from a US company.

[–] crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Would never expect anything less from a ~~US~~ company.

[–] Griffus@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I do not disagree with you, but keep in mind that most countries on the planet has up to several workers rights written into law, with the US as the only exception in the western world. So at least from the outside looking in, if company was not mentioned, I'd assume a US company immediately.

[–] crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 days ago

While it's true the US is the worst example in the western world, with generally speaking no workers' rights, in my experience (in the EU) workers' rights have steadily eroded over at least the last decade.

Always online expectations, zero hour contracts, expectations of unpaid overtime, gig economy, salaries "under the table", food vouchers (instead of pay in order to avoid taxes) have become practically the norm where I come from. Recently shipping workers from overseas (mostly India and Uzbekistan) and paying them half a minimum wage (illegally ofc) has become quite popular too.

So yeah, while there are some workers protections written in the law, in practice they seem to matter less and less.

[–] Darkard@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

You shouldn't use that productivity to benefit YOU! You should use it to benefit ME!

[–] MoonRaven@feddit.nl 4 points 4 days ago

Ah, but the employees will be paid more then... Right..?