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Money (and a chance to apply what he learned at a much larger scale)? It pays very well and you can FIRE in less than 10 years. Especially when FB is much more legal than say stealing cars.

I don't think critics of Facebook have even decided what they want their critique of Facebook to be.

My opinion is most of the negative reaction that people have to Facebook is intrinsic to websites where lots of people socialize online.

Why stop there? On HN you no doubt have engineers whose line of work is in mass death.

Could you be more specific?

Military industrial complex?

Bingo! But there are plenty of other harmful industries that exist today that are on the wrong side of history, but depend on skilled engineering to wreak the havoc they do on our people and our planet.