Meta Follows Elon Musk’s Lead, Moves Staffers to Billionaire-Friendly Texas
Meta Follows Elon Musk’s Lead, Moves Staffers to Billionaire-Friendly Texas
According to Mark Zuckerberg, Meta trust and safety workers will be relocated to Texas to prevent them from “censoring” users. Experts point to other advantages.
Honestly, I’m all for tech continuing to move to Texas. Want to make Texas blue? Keep sending tech jobs there.
I hate to wreck this beautiful dream, but tech is not nearly as blue as everyone thinks it is.
I've never spent time around big tech types where the split wasn't 30% libertarians, 30% right-wingers, and 30% american-style liberals.
The problem there is the libertarians land all over the damn spectrum but you end up basically the same place you do everywhere else: it's a 50/50 split.
And let's be honest, the expectation here is that a lot of the employees won't move.
If the goal is to avoid "liberal bias", or whatever, moving the people from California to Texas won't do a damn thing. What you do is you move the jobs somewhere unpalatable, knowing full well this will let you do a mass layoff without it being a layoff, because people "chose" not to move to where their job is.
So we're going to get a couple of jobs, but they're going to be filled by people already here.
On the bright side, Zuck's influence on California politics is going to drastically decrease.
So we're going to get a couple of jobs, but they're going to be filled by
people already here.temporary foreign workers
Can H-1B visa workers vote in the election?
Depends on which team you ask.
We'd need to get out and fucking vote first. Mark my words, Abbott is getting reelected with fewer votes than Kamala Harris.
Fuck musk, meta, and the Texas governance while we're at it.
California should respond by funding fediverse projects.
How do we get so fortunate. Both Musk and Zuckerberg are out of here! The universe is giving us some good gifts as well.
Texas was already full of assholes. Now we have Rogan, Musk, and Zuckerberg to make it even more pretentious and obnoxious. God I hate it here.
Join us in the PNW. Best move we've ever made.
Maybe... maybe they should just cede now, take all the assholes with them... that doesn't sound so bad.
/cries in Texan
Texas has no shortage of billionaires. They'll fit right in.
Until they realize most of us are functionally literate at best, oh wait, h1 visas....
Huh interesting. Move company to a place where you can't find local workers, use as justification for hiring H1Bs, profit off slave wages.