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# Who gets to be a Metamate?
- URL: https://werd.io/who-gets-to-be-a-metamate/
- Published: 2022-02-15T22:18:03.000Z
- Updated: 2022-02-15T22:18:03.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:23

An interesting juxtaposition in my feedreader today:

![](https://old.werd.io/file/620c268ee367b9548b4fff82/thumb.png)

[On one hand](https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/meta-employees-metamates):

> For its final value, Zuckerberg added “Meta, Metamates, Me” to the list, pushing the company's metaverse rebrand one step further. He said this one relates to “the sense of responsibility we have for our collective success and to each other as teammates.”

[And on the other](https://futurism.com/facebook-content-mod-sweatshop):

> “The work that we do is a kind of mental torture,” one current Sama employee that works as an outsourced Facebook content moderator told TIME, who like others who spoke to the magazine did so on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution or job loss. “Whatever I am living on is hand-to-mouth. I can’t save a cent. Sometimes I feel I want to resign. But then I ask myself: what will my baby eat?”

So Meta employees should ask themselves: who gets to be a Metamate? And what does that answer say about the company they work for?