I’d really love to see this type of outrage for people with PdDs getting laid off from universities who make shit pay and teach lit classes living out of their cars. Cry me a river, tech professionals. Not that I have anything against tech professionals, etc. But, you know, it would be really nice for people to get a view of the world as it is. I’m a humanities professional, and, thankfully, doing quite well today. I was laid off in the stock market crash of 2008 because I was working at a private, Catholic university in Worcester, MA with investments. That year, they laid off 1000 workers. All of us working our asses off for a fraction of the salary those guys were making that were laid off. Sorry, but my heart strings aren’t pulled. I’ll tell them what they might have told me at the bar or something: “Sorry, bro. A door closes, another one opens.”

The solution is not for you to show contempt or lack of empathy to these people, it’s for them and you to demand better treatment from the owners and executives.

The system is fucked and it is skewed wildly against anyone who is not at the top.

I’m not showing contempt or lack of empathy. I’m showing that people on here don’t care about other workers other than the ones that work in computer-related industries, which salary-wise can afford to be laid off. Cry me a river. Your nasty response shows me that you have no compassion for workers in other industries or professions that are, on average, overqualified and make less money when they are employed. You’re the type of person that got an F in High School English class and just like video games. Nothing intelligent here in your comment. I made a real argument about things how they are about the job market. Your response is weak and not convincing me. Most of all because science is always favored over humanities in the world at large. You don’t care about anything else except the industry you are into. You’re into the video game industry. You only care about the workers who were laid off in the video game industry. Other workers that were laid off, it seems to me, don’t matter to you. You’re attentive to this news story not because of workers, but because of video games.

Boy howdy, you sure are committed to your idiot perspective aren’t you?

What’s my idiot perspective here? My perspective is stupid. I am too dumb to understand why my perspective is dumb. Please, explain. My point of view from my perspective looks crystal clear. Tell me, please, in plain English, where I am erring.

Me hurt from lack of other people caring about bad things happening to me. Me hate people who care about other people having bad things happen to them.

I wasn’t talking about myself. I was talking about how on here, video games reign supreme. You guys worship people that work in developing video games. You don’t even care about your own professions, which could be not in the video game industry. I’d love to see you sharing news stories about people getting laid off from a place of work that is not related to video games. That was my point. You make my point even stronger because of your manner of commenting. It’s childish and autistic. I was using my own life (in the year 2008, which was how many years ago?) as an example to show how insignificant it is to this manner of gushing over unemployment in the video game industry you have, when you don’t gush over it when unemployment happens in other fields of work. You’re all really unemployed, it seems. Or you all work in the video game industry. If you were all working in a diverse range of professions, and not just the video game industry, and you really cared about workers, you wouldn’t be fawning over this youtube garbage. You’d be actually concerned, and expressing your concernes, over any and all corporate layoffs across professions. I don’t see you doing that. Why? Because you don’t care.