What the hell are they even spending all this money on when they don’t have much to show for it?

  • Nobody@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Could it be that people don’t want to pay money to strap advertising machines on their faces? Has the robotic Augustus Caesar LARPer lost touch with the common people?

    No, it is the plebeians that are wrong.

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      He’s taking the territory early.

      Others will be less willing to develop if they must compete with a loss-tolerant Meta with years (and billions of dollars) already invested.

      I want VR and much of what he’s got people working on. I just don’t want it from them. Or Google. Or most tech bigs.

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      For context, Meta reported 40 billion in revenue during that period, with 24Bn in expenses and made 13bn for the period. All those numbers are up from the same period last year.

      So I’m gonna go with “probably, yeah”.

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      2 months ago

      i mean, the main concern for most shareholders is the stock price, and meta stock price in the last 6 months has gone up 20% and 47% on the last year, im pretty sure most of them are happy as long as the bubble keeps going up

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        I mean, that’s kinda circular isn’t it? Them being happy, being why the stock goes up.

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          Thats debatable, he asked if shareholders were happy with meta burning billions, if the shareholders werent happy they would be looking for an out and making the stock price go down, them being fine with it makes it so buying stock becomes more expensive as people is holding and the value goes up.

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    Just how? What are they all doing there? According to the wiki Reality Labs have 17,000 employees. They didn’t create anything that a company of 1,000 couldn’t.

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      It’s a typical silicon valley situation. Half of those people are likely doing next to no work, and the management doesn’t even know who they are

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        2 months ago

        Nonsense, management has setup meetings throughout the day so that the people that are actually working only get about an hour’s worth of actual work done

  • Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Number go up until number go down.

    It’s just investment bankers conning investment bankers out of other people’s money.

    Its ok though - just make sure none of these people are playing with your pension or savings.