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[–] floofloof 27 points 2 years ago (3 children)

“Becoming one of these iconic, impactful companies is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics. In fact, probably more challenging,” Shafi wrote in the memo, which was full of similarly outlandish analogies. “Like the Olympics, we know most people don’t want to be Olympians. In the same way, not everyone will want to walk the path we are walking. But for those that want to push their limits and find out what they are capable of, this culture is for you."

Translation: work long hours and don't complain, because I stand to make a lot of money from your labour.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Ah yes, a cult.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

What I'm capable of :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To be entirely fair, every company writes some version of this corporate word salad in their "About" section. There's nothing to be gleaned from it, be it positive or otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

And every company is just telling its employees "Work ling hours and don't complain, because we stand to make a lot of money from you labour".

[–] UntouchedWagons 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have never heard of this before.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] UntouchedWagons 1 points 2 years ago

I didn't know of it therefore I'm not a bot! Take that Cloudflare! This is some Descartes level shit.

[–] Kowowow 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

If you have realistic enough bots couldn't you just sell thier data?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Honestly, I bet you could sell this idea to some investors dumb enough.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Let chatgpt help you with that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Why not double down and also have bots click on the ads to drive up the number of impressions too? It's a self sustaining economy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's about twice as much as Reddit and Twitter! /hj

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Capitalists love their top-down approach

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

What the heck is a "unicorn social app"?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Imagine being one of those 1 million monthly active users just realizing that you were talking to a bot most of the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Shoulda renamed themselves to "less than real life"

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