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Ahhh, legacy mainstream media, where tech companies doing desperately needed layoffs just like practically every company in the world over an economic cycle is a nothing more than a singular conspiracy to "crush worker power." Never change my liberal echo chamber journalist friends, never change...

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These layoffs have been primarily constrained to tech and finance, not to every company in the world. Maybe for some companies these layoffs are “desperately needed”, but surely not for the most profitable ones, at this scale. At the very least it’s terrible for morale and PR.

I hear DEI initiatives in HR departments were particularly hard hit. So it's not just capitalists breaking workers' backs, there's a strong current of white resentment as well...

Cool story bro.

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