- cross-posted to:
- workreform@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- workreform@lemmy.world
- The smol beanification of capital.  : “UwU, don’t bwame me pwease, it was compooper’s fault! Stop pointing out how I’m the leader! I’m a smol bean in this big scawy wowd just like you!” : “UwU, don’t bwame me pwease, it was compooper’s fault! Stop pointing out how I’m the leader! I’m a smol bean in this big scawy wowd just like you!”- To quote Hopper: “First rule of leadership. Everything is your fault.”  I have a wife and two heirs…ah errors…er kids! I have a wife and two heirs…ah errors…er kids! and I love kids. and I love kids.
 
- Smokescreen. - They probably are feeling the recession and had to cut jobs, but don’t want to admit this to shareholders. 
- blames AI  
- I guess we can see if the US East 1 is going to go down more… 
- Lemme guess, they’re gonna rehire half those people at a pay cut. - i got a ping from LinkedIn that there were 90+ new software engineer jobs for AWS the same day they announced they were going to do this massive layoff. - i’m not even a programmer but somehow linkedin thought I should know this 
- As “independant contractors” 
 
- I think that Alice (will look up the twitter because I don’t have a last name) was right on AI. Its real, effective purpose is as a method to punish labor as a class. It’s just a way to worsen working conditions (‘AI will replace you because you want breaks’) and lower wages (‘AI could do it cheaper if I wanted’) Edit; Alice Malone 










