On Meta’s Q1 2026 earnings call, CFO Susan Li said the quiet part out loud. “We recently shared internally that we plan to reduce the size of our employee base in May. We believe a leaner operating model will allow us to move more quickly while also helping to offset the substantial investments we are ... Mark Zuckerberg Just Told 8,000 Employees Their Layoffs Are a Line Item in His $145 Billion AI Bill
  • arrow74@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    Right so now if we once again go back 2 comments you can remember my comment on the poor state of the current job market.

    Also what’s Walmart got to do with this ? You think greeters and cashiers are hired from the same pool as Meta product owners ?

    See you missed the point there. Walmart has and continues to do irreprepable harm to the economy, workers, and the planet. By the logic you proposed the workers are responsible for that. Just like the workers for meta are responsible.

    Honestly it doesn’t matter if you make 300k a year at Meta or $12 an hour at Walmart. At the end of the day when compared to the billionaires exploiting the labor of both the difference between these workers is about a billion dollars

    • Zos_Kia@jlai.luEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      Honestly it doesn’t matter if you make 300k a year at Meta or $12 an hour at Walmart

      It absolutely does. If you can make 300K at Meta you can make 250K someplace else. Missing out on those extra 50K is nowhere near an existential threat to you.

      If you make 12$/h at Walmart i am not blaming you for taking what you can and making a living of it. If you work for a Meta subcontractor in Kenya doing 300$ a month i am not blaming you.

      But if you choose to work for an objectively evil company while you have other options (which you definitely have if EvilCorp is even considering your resume), and you make that choice just to maximize your discretionary spending… then you can’t play the solidarity card.