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[–] [email protected] 82 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

You get what you pay for. They'll be drawing from "the best of the rest" in a dwindling pool.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They pay well enough to get anyone who doesn't care about principles. Plenty people in tech like that.

[–] GraniteM 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

They don't need the very best to make profit for a very long time, especially in a friendly regulatory regime. Check IBM for reference.

They own the social media market and have enough capital to acquire any plausible competitor, as have done in the past.

Losing top talent is only a significant price to pay if the firm or its competitors are still building new stuff that affects their bottom line. Meta is happy raking in the social media-ad profits. Google is happy raking in the search-ad profits. They're all busy getting more money out of the markets they've monopolized, not competing.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Nah, with Trump in office, he'll be delighted to hire in H1B slave labor ...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Since when is/will be Trump in office. I only see President Musk.