Epic Games is "laying off 1000 people." 23% of its workforce.
That number is bonkers. I feel like we've grown so desensitized to layoffs at this scale after a few years, that we don't think about the scale of 1000.
That's a highschool in a dense city. Or a small town in Canada, or a high-rise or two. That's so many lives and people who are dependent on that income.
What a nightmare world where we hear about layoffs constantly at this scale.
@mayintoronto What's wild is that, in Canada and the US, there is need of a fundamental reorganization of the way capitalism functions. And that happens with federal legislation. A lot of it.
But there's **no move whatsoever** to begin this process.
@prietschka and everytime someone tries to push for real change, the naysayers tell you that it's "not realistic".
M8 staying alive on the current trajectory is unrealistic.
@mayintoronto In the US there’s always money for elite priorities, never for anything else. Because we’re not a real democracy, barely a bourgeois democracy.
Until there’s some sort of complete breakdown we are absolutely fucked.
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