One thing that's getting a little lost in this mix, is that some of the people desperately holding on at Twitter are because they are trapped by either healthcare or visas.

That there are systemic traps that trap workers in America so they feel unable to move freely to new employers who want them and would have better pay or conditions is *nuts* and deserves a lot more attention than it gets.

@Pwnallthethings I’ll never forgot I spent months working to get approvals for an H1-B visa for an Oracle dev (this was summer 2001). September 11 came and went and my company laid off 90% of staff in October. The oracle dev had literally just arrived in the US and had worked for us for 6 weeks when he got laid off. It was awful