Upol EhsanJan 21, 2023

When a company is struggling to make ends meet, cutting down workforce makes some sense.

When a company makes record profits and yet *chooses* to cull the workforce, it says where the company's values lie.

When an entire industry normalizes such lay offs, we need to critically examine the industry itself.

#layoffs #bigtech #jobs #google #amazon #microsoft #FAANG #META

Show threadEric Lawton

@upol

How does our system (media, politics, economic "scholarship", …) sustain the myth that billionaires are "job creators", in the face of behaviour like these recent layoffs.

And trickle-down "theory" in the light of the rapidly growing wealth gap?

How can we break this before the inevitable violence when people get too hungry?

Jan 21, 2023 at 5:29pmWeb