• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Member how the metaverse was supposed to revolutionise our lives, but they just spent dozens of billions on a shitty VR sim, renamed their whole company over it, then fired tens of thousands of workers when it flopped, but still jerked zuck off for his capitalist prowess?

    He’s worth hundreds of billions more today! Capitalism is a fucking clown world.

    • Specter@piefed.social
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      1 hour ago

      Same thing with Musk lol failure after failure after failure but there are still clowns on the internet who call him a visionary.

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      If we punished the ceo’s who steal billions the same way we punish a homeless person that steals $20 to buy food, the world would be a much better place

      Capitalism just means that your theft has to be more organized, and done by a ‘company’. Then no one gets held personally responsible, even if they were the one at the top giving all the orders.

      We should start to use RICO against businesses and punish every link in the management chain that makes that theft possible. Like at least 5 years in jail+fines

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      6 hours ago

      Surprise, some Aspy Sociopathic Oligarch who has been out of touch with humanity since birth has no idea what actual humans want, and are willing to pay for.

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      Capitalism is deeply flawed, but what you’re experiencing is a failure of social media and journalism.

      Everyone guffaws about Meta because everyone hates them, so bloggers write shitty vacuous click baity articles that just twist and distort everything meta does to make them look as terrible as possible. And while they’re shitty, they’re not shitty and incompetent in every single possible way or else they wouldn’t be as rich as they are.

      But these vacuous articles that bend over backwards and diatort the truth to paint them as incompetent in every possible way then leaves people going “how could anyone be that stupid?”, and the reality is that they’re not that stupid, you were just misinformed by outrage journalism.

      Despite the guffawing about shutting down Horizon Worlds, there’s a good chance that Meta’s reality Labs bet will still be a smart financial play in the long term. Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc have made billions by controlling the dominant OSes and Meta has far and away the strongest augment reality operating system as we head into AR glasses actually being viable from a technology standpoint.