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You have to put your conscience in escrow until your options vest.


I mean the options are

1) leave quietly and tell no one: con - no one on HN gets to talk about it. The next person needing money does it anyway.

2) leave loudly when you're still poor: con - you get blacklisted from tech and die from a preventable disease working at a gas station without insurance. The company implements the policy anyway.

3) leave loudly when your rich: con - people accuse you of selling out the users.


I believe you are forgetting:

4) Don't join Meta in the first place

I have consistently told recruiters from Meta to leave me alone. It is a company that has knowingly done massive harm to our culture and our children, and I have no interest in ever working with or for them.


in terms of effect, this is identical to option 1.




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