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Re:Tech's Elite Hates Labor by VFIT7CTO77TOC on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @02:05PM (#34697487)
I saw a discussion about tech layoffs few weeks ago. Someone had noted that layoffs should have come as no surprise when you had employees bragging about how little work they were doing. This comment stirred up a lot of people calling the poster heartless and saying things like "these people have families".

That is such a naive perspective of the world. These are businesses and their goal is to make as much money as possible. That means they strive to be as efficient as possible. I don't know where the expectation that they should function as charities or job programs came from.

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Re:Tech's Elite Hates Labor by ejb999 on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @02:34PM (#34698082)
>>I don't know where the expectation that they should function as charities or job programs came from.

Personally I think it comes from many of these people being young (under about 33-35), and having worked almost their entire careers in a booming economy where things always went up in a straight line; you would need to have about 15 years working as an adult to have lived thru the last big down cycle in 2008.

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