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Re:Twitter to start layoffs -internal email by WalterBright on Thursday November 03, 2022 @10:32PM (#33461246)
> Who's more important the workers or the company?

The workers all lose when the company goes bust.

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Re:Twitter to start layoffs -internal email by Godel_unicode on Thursday November 03, 2022 @11:12PM (#33461609)
The company goes bust without the workers. There’s more to it than just the extremes.
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Re:Twitter to start layoffs -internal email by WalterBright on Friday November 04, 2022 @12:17AM (#33462138)
True. It's also true that the best thing a company can do for its workers is make a decent profit.
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Re:Twitter to start layoffs -internal email by Godel_unicode on Saturday November 05, 2022 @03:16AM (#33478786)
Amazon went over a decade minting millionaire employees while not making a profit. Ditto Uber, and half of the other cheap-money unicorns.
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