Meta’s board just handed six top executives a new stock package that will pile $921 million onto each of their stacks. Less than 24 hours later, 700 Meta workers got the email. Same company. Same week. Same accountants.
The scale breaks your brain if you let it sit. One executive’s new raise alone could keep every single fired worker employed at a solid salary for roughly two decades. There are six of them. Around five and a half billion dollars in fresh comp going to the exact people who decided which 700 families to torch before breakfast. Zuckerberg calls it “streamlining.” Outside the building we call it what it is — theft with extra steps and a press release.
Every layoff in 2026 is a choice. The money exists. They’re moving it, in broad daylight, from the people who build the product to the people who sit in meetings about the product. The boss who swears there is no budget for a 3% raise somehow found $921 million in the couch cushions for himself. Layoffs aren’t weather. Someone signed off. Someone got rich for signing off.