You know all the random unforced tech layoffs are just labor disorganizing, right?
That's it. That's all they are. They're making us play musical chairs with our jobs to keep us from ever building enough trust to organize. Their ideal outcome is a labor pool that's too traumatized and reactive to act collectively.
Just pushing everyone into a scarcity mindset on purpose. It's the whole US economy writ small.
@jenniferplusplus I suspect that is giving them too much credit for malevolence. Most CEOs I’ve met have the strategic skills of a flatworm. (Although the effects are of course exactly the same to the workers).
CEOs are herd animals and will do whatever the other CEOs are doing. Musk triggered them all into a stampede.
@whalecoiner @jenniferplusplus not sure if it was Musk so much as interest rates and our black swan event, Covid
The VC Tech crowd literally ginned up a bank run on themselves that was entirely avoidable and had nothing to do with interest rates or COVID.
@ericjmorey @ado @whalecoiner
On *each other.* That was Peter Theil vs Marc Andreesen, and Theil won.
From my view, they're both just part of the group that injured themselves. The fact that some were harmed more than others is largely irrelevant to show that exogenous factors labeled as "the economy" are not the reason for the layoffs.
Apropos of nothing, did you see Zuckerberg's super relatable post about how he and his daughter have a hobby of raising cattle on their ranch by feeding them 10,000 pounds of macadamia nuts each from trees that were planted and grown on Zuckerberg's property adjacent to Zuckerberg's ranch in Hawaii? Why can't we all bond like this with our families? Perhaps because some were among the tens of thousands of people that were laid off by Zuckerberg's companies?
