• ghostdoggtv@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    10 months ago

    Okay but we’re talking about layoffs in the tech sector. And idk about you but I’ve been finding out about different batches at different places all day. Tech workers are supposed to be immune to this type of pressure yet today they’re the first ones out. Am I a genius because I stayed on topic?

    I started being able to make ends meet just before COVID and despite nominal raises yoy I can’t do it anymore without getting a second job, and lots of people would be envious of what little I do have. Israel isn’t gonna stop doing the things causing the canal to be unusable. Hamas should have taken out Likud instead of going for hostages and it would have worked out better.

    • vexikron@lemmy.zipEnglish
      41·
      10 months ago

      I have absolutely no idea why you would think tech workers are immune to layoffs or that the tech industry is somehow not affected by general global market conditions.

      They are capitalist for profit enterprises in a largely globalized and largely capitalist world, and the easiest thing to do to keep nearly any large company profitable in a general downturn is to lay off employees.

      Sorry that you too are personally affected by the inexorable logic of the system by which nearly all economic production of nearly all kinds for nearly the entire world operates by, I guess?