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 but how else will those poor execs survive if they don’t lay off almost a quarter of their workforce so they can give themselves millions in bonuses  ðŸ˜¡
@himbovoorhees @mayintoronto Listen man, 3rd yachts aren’t cheap, it has to be big enough to park your other yachts inside. You can’t do that without vampire squidding your entire workforce. It’s just capitalist science. (We are doomed.)

@MissConstrue @himbovoorhees @mayintoronto

Vampire... squidding?

<furiously scribbles in notebook>