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It will be interesting to see how talent acquisition evolves. Many great engineers were put off by strong DEI-focused PR, and even more oppose the sudden opportunistic shift to the right. Will Muslims continue to want to work for Google? Will Europeans work for X? Some may have previously avoided close relations with China for ethical reasons—will the same soon apply to the US?

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Thanks to a particular culture in the US, those companies have a very strong argument against morals: money. If you can make $440k per year as an engineer at xAi, do you really care what your boss says in public? How many people sit in jobs right now getting paid much less and still have to endure similar shit from their execs?

If you're an engineer capable of holding a $440k/year job then you should care where your talent goes and who benefits from it. There are plenty of places that will pay you a good salary where the boss isn't trying to badly play at world domination.

> There are plenty of places that will pay you a good salary where the boss isn't trying to badly play at world domination.

Ah, yes. Google? Meta? Amazon? Microsoft? Hahaha. You're right, they aren't doing it in the open, and some certainly aren't doing a bad job about it. But they are all playing at world domination.

This isn't really true though... The US tech sector owns big salaries right now.

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