This is false. A shit ton of money can buy a ton of talent. Not Carmack level talent though, he made Doom and Quake so he's already a multi-millionaire. You need a metric ton of money to buy out Carmack, which is exactly what they did.
The problem with Meta is the same as the problem in any mega corporation at that scale -- warped incentives.
The problem with Meta is the same as the problem in any mega corporation at that scale -- warped incentives.
The incentive to spend all your time politicking your way up the massive corporate ladder outweighs the incentive to improve the actual product: https://mentalmodels4life.net/2021/01/04/safi-bahcalls-innov...
There's even an equation that describes this phenomenon