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Re:Google Announces 12K Layoffs: A difficult decision to set... by wonderwonder on Friday January 20, 2023 @09:08AM (#34453304)
They needed the increased labor at the time, they got it, utilized it, juiced profits and now don't need it so are getting rid of it. They used the increased labor to increase profits by 41% in 2021. If they did not have the increased labor in that period would their profits have increased by that much?

I see this comment in much the same way I see a bear in a bull market. Stock X is $100 and Bob buys it. Carl tells Bob he is an idiot and the stock is going to go down. Stock X goes to $200. Bob sells. Stock X starts going down and Carl starts telling everyone he was right and he knew the stock would crash. In the mean time Bob is retired and has gotten everything he needed from that particular stock purchase.

Re:Google Announces 12K Layoffs: A difficult decision to set... by RajT88 on Friday January 20, 2023 @09:59AM (#34453961)
Is this the "scalability of the cloud" I keep hearing about?
Re:Google Announces 12K Layoffs: A difficult decision to set... by wonderwonder on Friday January 20, 2023 @01:49PM (#34457814)
Pretty much. You don't want to know what happens at Amazon when you turn off your EC2 instance.