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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If Trump hung a nazi flag from the White House on his first day, all these companies would be sig heiling

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

you're kidding right?

they'd be hanging it for him.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They are removing them for the same reason they introduced them in the first place. Don't think they honestly believe either way, they just bend with the wind in politics.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They have no ethics, so they follow what's trendy

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

They have no ethics, so they follow ~~what’s trendy~~ what they predict more profit from

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

who wants to work there anyway

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Too lazy to bother with proper research, but considering how big these companies are, asking your favorite LLM How many people work at Meta and Amazon combined? will yield about 1.5M people (+/- the usual yearly thousands of layofss/new hires).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

that's just amazon. meta is tiny in comparison, with 75k people.

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

And most of those are probably warehouse and delivery workers.