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Member how the metaverse was supposed to revolutionise our lives, but they just spent dozens of billions on a shitty VR sim, renamed their whole company over it, then fired tens of thousands of workers when it flopped, but still jerked zuck off for his capitalist prowess?
He's worth hundreds of billions more today! Capitalism is a fucking clown world.
It’s what happens when you only hire yes-men.
psst 98% of Metas money comes from selling marketing dorks lies and scamming the larger economy.
That's why they're still afloat regardless of not having a product worth a damn.
To quote Frank Reynolds: "This is America: you're either a duper or a dupee. I'm a duper. You guys are the dupees."
Zuckerberg does not care if his products are culturally significant, the cash keeps rolling in.
Same thing with Musk lol failure after failure after failure but there are still clowns on the internet who call him a visionary.
Dude will crash his rockets and people say the company is successful. It’s bananas.
but the falcon 9 is objectively the most successful/flown rocket in history and it's not even close
The power of compound interest means that money can only make more money once it reaches a certain threshold. Whatever these guys were at twenty they're certainly not anymore, but they will never feel the pinch. They can only fail upwards from this point on.
Capitalism is deeply flawed, but what you're experiencing is a failure of social media and journalism.
Everyone guffaws about Meta because everyone hates them, so bloggers write shitty vacuous click baity articles that just twist and distort everything meta does to make them look as terrible as possible. And while they're shitty, they're not shitty and incompetent in every single possible way or else they wouldn't be as rich as they are.
But these vacuous articles that bend over backwards and diatort the truth to paint them as incompetent in every possible way then leaves people going "how could anyone be that stupid?", and the reality is that they're not that stupid, you were just misinformed by outrage journalism.
Despite the guffawing about shutting down Horizon Worlds, there's a good chance that Meta's reality Labs bet will still be a smart financial play in the long term. Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc have made billions by controlling the dominant OSes and Meta has far and away the strongest augment reality operating system as we head into AR glasses actually being viable from a technology standpoint.
Downvoted for sane-washing meta glasses.
I also disagree with your other takes, mainly boiling down to the insinuation that competence and intelligence is how capitalists make money in a system that's rigged in their favor...
No, they make money because they have enough people vendor-locked that they can convince advertisers to pay them to further enshittify their platforms, and that gives investors the confidence they need to keep writing blank checks.
I don't think the technological limitations are what are making those AR goggles get poor reception. They face a couple of non-technological hurdles that I think are going to be nearly impossible for them to overcome: