Getting Laid Off in Tech: The Myth of Upper Middle Class Security

Re:Getting Laid Off in Tech: The Myth of Upper Middle Class ... by toephu2 on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @05:34PM (#16916828)

Even Steve Jobs is disposable.

How many here remember where they were and what they were doing when they heard Steve Jobs passed away? Almost like being able to recall where you were when 9/11 happened.

When I heard of his death I was shocked, I wondered how Apple would survive, how the world for that matter would move on? But sure enough the next day the sun still rose and and the earth still rotated. Today Apple is doing just fine without Jobs and is making record profits. Everyone is disposable and money will always make the world go 'round.

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Re:Getting Laid Off in Tech: The Myth of Upper Middle Class ... by mywittyname on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @05:50PM (#16916969)

> Almost like being able to recall where you were when 9/11 happened.

Is this sarcasm that I'm not picking up on? I literally can't remember what year SJ died. I can't even remember what generation iPhone was his last.

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Re:Getting Laid Off in Tech: The Myth of Upper Middle Class ... by kridsdale1 on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @07:48PM (#16917675)

I remember the precise moment because on that day I was in my office at 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino. It was bizarre. A mass of mourners swamped the building in under an hour.

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Re:Getting Laid Off in Tech: The Myth of Upper Middle Class ... by bdcravens on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @06:15PM (#16917131)

I remember because I was traveling home from Adobe MAX so I heard the news at the airport. However, I totally get that many assume he's deified by all.

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Re:Getting Laid Off in Tech: The Myth of Upper Middle Class ... by ryeguy on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @12:45AM (#16918683)

not sarcasm, just hacker news

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Re:Getting Laid Off in Tech: The Myth of Upper Middle Class ... by bumblebritches5 on Thursday April 26, 2018 @12:25AM (#16928796)

2011, and the iPhone 4s was released a few days after he died.

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Re:Getting Laid Off in Tech: The Myth of Upper Middle Class ... by toephu2 on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @01:05AM (#16918747)

I never said do you remember what year Jobs died. Nor did I ask what generation of iPhone was his last. I don't remember those either.

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Re:Getting Laid Off in Tech: The Myth of Upper Middle Class ... by keieo29 on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @05:46PM (#16916935)

Numerous studies have tried to measure who generates value. Millions of dollars spent on this, cause it seems like an important question right?

The results from what I’ve read have offered no answers. One place spent $20 million trying to answer how much productivity is gained from having email. Nothing.

I suspect it’s like the food industry and fossil fuels: they are selling us on nonsense and hiding the reality.

Economics was the latest long con, like religion before it, the masses buy in hook line and sinker

But yeah we DEFINITELY need to make more phone apps and web apps! Fawk yeah!

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