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Re:Shopify to cut 20% of its workforce, beats quarterly reve... by hotpotamus on Thursday May 04, 2023 @08:43AM (#35814372)
> that’s better for society

Increasingly I wonder what this means. What KPIs are you evaluating to determine if society is getting better or worse? And is it?

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Re:Shopify to cut 20% of its workforce, beats quarterly reve... by osigurdson on Thursday May 04, 2023 @09:21AM (#35814862)
Economic growth would certainly suffer if we insisted that no one could ever be let go.
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Re:Shopify to cut 20% of its workforce, beats quarterly reve... by hotpotamus on Thursday May 04, 2023 @09:59AM (#35815433)
In context, I understand that you mean let go from jobs, but it doesn't seem like we have much trouble letting people go from society either.
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Re:Shopify to cut 20% of its workforce, beats quarterly reve... by osigurdson on Thursday May 04, 2023 @09:22PM (#35824240)
What does it mean to let people go from society?
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Re:Shopify to cut 20% of its workforce, beats quarterly reve... by hotpotamus on Saturday May 06, 2023 @11:58AM (#35842604)
As an example, I'd look at the individual who was strangled to death on the New York subway on Monday.
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