To be fair he’s also been trying to make an AI version of himself.

The idea is a less atrocious if you don’t have to worry about any of your needs being met. But even then, there’s a huge difference between “I recorded myself doing X” and “we’re going to watch everything you say or do and hopefully put you out of a job with it”.

It seems to me not even profits matter to them. Just control and power.

Or "Capital". You've just discovered the fatal flaw in capitalism: when money matters more than people, money will always win.

"Every dollar spent is a vote cast"

for Zuck specifically, it feels like ego.

More like fooling the investors that AI will bring profit

data poisoning from maliciously compliant employees

Even if everyone cooperated faithfully and diligently fully in on the plan of being rendered redundant in a few years, what do they even have?

Just the generic motions of work. As soon as your business model shifts, or some interface changes, or you run into a problem that you haven't seen before...

They're cannibalizing themselves. That's the only way you can describe it. An organization that's hollowing itself out with management aware it won't last (or delusional enough to believe reality will never catch up with them).

If they're doing this with their infrastructure, how much does anyone want to bet they're playing fast and loose with their budgets and accounting as well?

This all screams Enron/Worldcomm waiting to happen.

Yup. "Meta Pioneers" or some shit.

Hell I always assumed that my work computer had a keylogger and was instrumented to shit, I might well have taken 10% at my old job.

Meta provides zero value to the world anymore. It would be a net positive to be rid of it. Maybe I could go back to using Craigslist again instead of having to use Facebook to sell my used shit….

Google. You can easily avoid Meta. You don't have to de-metify phones, you don't have to use Meta's browser. It's really hard (and getting harder) to avoid Google. Meta is annoying, Google is cancer.

I would of course, go for Palantir.

Since corporations are ppl Death note would be good path.

The race to the bottom perhaps.

Isn’t he? There was an entire Hollywood movie in 2010 that grossed $224M about what an abhorrent person he is, and yet he’s still more successful than ever.

The world has shown that it may not love that he’s a shitty person, but it’s too apathetic to stop using his products and lining his pockets