Ah Meta. Short 🧵 1/3 Meta leaked docs reveal what we already knew: while Mark Zuckerberg testified about protecting teens, internal teams had one goal - Have Instagram win back the 8.4% of monthly teen users they'd lost and beat TikTok by 2027.

Latest startup trend: take your shoes off at the office so you "feel at home." You know what would make me feel at home? Being at home. Or only working the 40 hours I'm paid for. Also, job security. But sure, shoes off works too.

I have dozens of accounts across iCIMS and Workday. Same information re-entered, hundreds of times. Both are "highly configurable" - for the companies hiring, not the people applying. Your time means nothing. You're just another application to ATS auto-reject without even letting you know.

Over 100 WARN notices had already been filed for January layoffs. Some companies struggling, most just greedy. Nothing says “Happy New Year” like mass unemployment to boost shareholder returns.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Billionaires building survival compounds aren't paranoid. They're reading the same publicly available data you are - climate models, resource projections, inequality trends. And rather than using their almost infinite resources to help, their choice is bunkers, not solutions.

CEO posts "leadership wisdom" on LinkedIn. The first 10 likes arrive within minutes - all from employees. Comments: "So true!" "Great perspective!" "Thanks for this!" Engagement from outside the company: zero. It's not thought leadership. It's a loyalty test with a paper trail.

Per Oxfam: Since 1989, the top 1% gained 987 times more wealth per household than the bottom 20%. Not ten times more, or even a hundred times more... Nearly a thousand times more. And politicians still call this a "healthy economy." It's inequality by design, then gaslighting about the results.

The stock market hit record highs! The top 1% owns 54% of it. The bottom 50% owns 1%. So when they tell you the economy is booming, what they mean is: their economy is booming.

Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are lowering credit requirements to reach subprime borrowers again. Last time we tried this, the housing market collapsed, we bailed out the banks with taxpayer money, and exactly zero executives went to jail. But I’m sure it’ll be different this time.

ExxonMobil knew about climate change in 1977 and spent the next 40 years funding denial instead of solutions. Facebook knew Instagram harmed teen mental health and optimized for engagement anyway. Harm is more profitable than help.

How likely are you to recommend us to friends and family?" Zero. Because recommending my internet provider is a good way to end friendships. And I can't switch. You're a monopoly here. NPS doesn't work for monopolies. Low scores just mean recommending you isn't a personality trait.

I'm not an economist, but I've never understood the obsession with growth. This helps explain it very well. And for those without the patience to watch a 7 min vid, the punchline is: ditch the dogma of growth, redistribute what we already have. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbiH...

The iCloud interface looks like it was designed in 2002 & abandoned. It's intentional. You paid $12/year for 50GB. Now that's full too. Now they want $36/year for 200GB. Each tier fills up, spams notifications for next tier. It's not cloud storage, it's a subscription treadmill. Friction as profit.

A Christmas Carol is a timeless classic fantasy story that asks what it would be like if the wealthy had a conscience. Almost a comedy.

Fortune magazine:"The US remains the clear leader in global wealth creation." Wealth creation? In 1989, the richest families had 36 x the wealth of average American families. Now? Over 72 x.That's extraction, not creation. They're not building wealth - they're just taking more of what you had.

'Culture fit' means: someone who'll accept long hours, low pay, and layoffs without pushback. Someone whose identity is the job. Someone who won't realize they're being exploited until it's too late. It's not culture - it's compliance.

I get the intent here, but "you're doing better than 67% of people living paycheck to paycheck" isn't comforting. These stats aren't a benchmark for feeling good -they're an indictment of a broken system. We shouldn't be comparing ourselves to widespread financial precarity and calling that winning.

Just got this from a customer service rep. 'It saddened my heart' is corporate-speak for 'I'm reading a script and have zero power to help you, but my performance is monitored so I need to sound like I care before transferring you to someone else who also can't help.'

RemoteHunter just sent me the perfect job match: Swim instructor in Colorado (1300 miles from home), paying $22/year. That's 6 cents per day. At that rate, I could retire in 45,000 years - assuming I save every penny and never eat. The algorithm really gets me.

Many CEOs now earn in one year what 50 of their employees will make in their entire working lifetimes. But sure, the real problem is workers asking for cost-of-living raises.

1/2 Want to support your local restaurant? Go in person or call for pickup if you can. Uber Eats charges them up to 30% commission, so they mark up menu prices 10-25% just to claw some of this back. You're already paying more even before Uber adds fees to your side of things.

The unsurprising reality of trickle-down: Academic research tells a clear story: A 2020 LSE study analyzed 50 years across 18 countries and found tax cuts for the rich had ZERO effect on GDP or employment - all it does is increase inequality. No peer-reviewed studies show it works. Zero.

If your favorite foods taste worse lately, it's not nostalgia - it's Skimplation. Inflation raised the price, shrinkflation cut the portion, and now skimplation swaps quality ingredients for cheaper substitutes. The holy trinity: you pay more, get less, and it tastes like cardboard. Capitalism!

Uber 🧵 1/4: Uber's entire playbook: burn billions in VC money on below-cost rides to destroy taxi competition, capture market share, then jack up prices once alternatives are reduced or gone. Since 2018, they've raised prices ~18% annually, in some markets outpacing inflation by 4x.

Tried finding a movie for the holidays. Everything's a prequel, sequel, remake, re-release, or video game adaptation. Almost zero original storytelling. And studio/streaming consolidation will only make it worse. Turns out monopolies aren't great for creativity.

Company culture isn't the ping pong table or the free snacks. It's whether they lay people off before Christmas or after (Amazon are likely doing both). Whether they pay for one month of healthcare or none after laying you off. The rest is just interior design.

Unlimited PTO 🧵 1/7 Unlimited PTO sounds generous. It's not. It's a financial engineering trick that saves companies millions while employees with PTO typically take less vacation. Here's how the scam works:

Corporate jobs are 30% actual work and 70% performance. Making the right alliances. Staying late so your boss sees you. Sending emails/Slack messages at night. Attending meetings you're not needed in. Success isn't doing the work - it's making sure the right people see you doing it.

Job application erased everything because I didn't know the exact day I started a job 15 years ago. Month and year wasn't enough. The system requires precision I don't have, so it forces me to make shit up. They've automated lying into the application process.

Flip side of this: Bezos got $245K from his parents to start Amazon. Musk grew up wealthy in apartheid South Africa (yachts, planes, emerald income). Zuckerberg got $100K from dad. Trump got $60M+ from his father. The system rewards people who already have capital. Then it calls them 'self-made.'

Ok, who put the acid in my coffee this morning?

LinkedIn is on a roll. They’re not providing me with any value , but at least they’re making me laugh.

LinkedIn error: 5,046 people work at 'Not applicable1,' a company with 0-1 employees that 'does not exist.' Solution? 'Contact support.' Plot twist: The support link doesn't work either. They laid off the people who fix bugs. Now nothing works, including the thing that reports that nothing works.

Tech companies say they're 'disrupting' industries. What they mean is: we found a way to make workers less secure, customers pay more, and call it innovation. Disruption is just exploitation with a better marketing budget.

Starbucks CEO: 'Employees do their best work together in the office. Return to office 4 days/week.' Also Starbucks CEO: Built himself an office including a $14K espresso machine next to his mansion, commutes via private jet when he bothers showing up. Makes 6,000 x what baristas make. Very together

Bribery: illegal. Lobbying: legal. The difference? Bribery skips the middleman. Lobbying uses campaign donations, PACs, consulting fees, and speaking engagements. Same money, same outcome, better lawyers. The system isn't broken. It's working exactly as designed.

Straight into the top 3 best ever job postings

The job posting is fake. The recruiter ghosts you. The rejection is automated. If you get hired: work 60 hours p/w, get paid for 40. When they lay you off, it's just 'organizational restructuring.' You're a number applying, a resource working, a cost being cut. Never a human. Perfect system

LinkedIn Year in Review is Spotify Wrapped for your professional trauma. Here's how many layoffs you witnessed. Here's how many 'I'm humbled' or rage bait posts you scrolled past. Here's how many ghost jobs you applied to. You got the same zero responses as the genuine ones. Share your stats!

Job applications ask 'why do you want to work here?' The honest answer is 'I need money to survive under capitalism.' But you have to pretend you're passionate about their mission. They're not passionate about paying you. Only you have to perform enthusiasm.

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The question is which kicks in first - planned obsolescence or just natural breakdown from being built terribly.

Companies that say 'we're a family' mean it the way a cult means it. Join us. Sacrifice for us. Your identity is us. And when we're done with you, we'll act like we never knew you.

I probably got on their list via the fake LinkedIn job listing scammer who sold my info, but this is certainly an interesting development in GOP fundraising. When the carrot doesn't work, bring out the stick!

WSJ: "White-collar workers 'spooked' by layoffs and AI". Factory workers were automated out of existence decades ago. Retail workers have been disposable forever. The security was always fake. White-collar workers are just now getting the memo everyone else got in the 80s and 90s.

Apple’s predictive text isn’t bad. It’s strategic. I don’t watch baseball. I never talk about baseball. I have never needed to type “RBI.” Yet Apple keeps thinking I want to write RBI. Not a bug. An experiment. Maybe they want to discover new swear word combos based on how angry I get?

He's right. Tax cuts for corporations don't create jobs. They create campaign donations. Workers with better wages grow the economy. Donors with tax cuts keep politicians in office. One of those incentives is stronger than the other. Guess which one wins.

Non-disparagement clauses last forever. They hand them over as part of the severance agreement, knowing you're terrified and will sign anything for a few weeks' pay. You do. They walk away. You stay silent for the rest of your life. Everyone wins. Mostly them.

Unemployment hits 4-year high. Company profits and stock market are up. CEOs are buying third vacation homes to celebrate the efficiency gains.