We should not celebrate sociopathy.

Or short term thinking. Maybe take... I dunno, a couple of weeks to assess people's value? Instead of potentially firing people you actually should have kept around and spending 35% more on salaries for replacements and God knows how much in lost domain knowledge.

Not ethical, not rational.

I'm fine with the argument that its not rational and not a good process because the outcome will be bad (firing people that you should have kept). I'm only pushing back against the idea that a business should put protecting peoples feelings over the wellbeing of the company. Sure do it humanely. Give a nice severance. But if people aren't producing the company has no obligation to keep them.

My god, what a bunch of capitalist assholes in this thread.

And you know the same people would be shedding tears if they were being cut short in any way.

It’s a total lack of empathy.

You're on a board founded by a VC fund to market their investments, I would expect capitalists to be the majority here.

Hacker News is a recruiting website for those capitalists' employees. (Look at the only ads that ever appear on HN).

You're right, but I still don't disagree with their point.

I don't doubt this site is mostly libertarian types but it still strikes me how such people can say some of the shit they do with a straight face. It's especially apparent how nuts some of them are when they are felating Elon Musk specifically.

You mean hackernews, the site for people who make ridiculous incomes for working on menial digital products like social media? It's strange when people walk into a room and assume everyone else must think like them.

Oh we're supposed to make ridiculous incomes? Lets go tell my public sector employer.

No, but you're supposed to understand that most of the people on HN aren't going to be dedicated against capitalism. I don't make much myself but I can figure that much out. SV is a capitalists wet dream.

Slight criticism of capitalism == dedicated against capitalism?