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What the hell are they even spending all this money on when they don't have much to show for it?

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[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 41 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Just how? What are they all doing there? According to the wiki Reality Labs have 17,000 employees. They didn't create anything that a company of 1,000 couldn't.

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's a typical silicon valley situation. Half of those people are likely doing next to no work, and the management doesn't even know who they are

[–] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 48 points 3 months ago

Nonsense, management has setup meetings throughout the day so that the people that are actually working only get about an hour's worth of actual work done

[–] Timii@biglemmowski.win 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, something doesn't add up. Even if all 17000 employees were paid $400k/year (I'd be shocked if this were the case) that would be ~1/3 this amount. I smell BS.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago

When the math doesn't add up... I figure there's money launderers in play.

But I won't look for them too hard, as I have only risk and no reward from being the one to find them.