Big Tech is using layoffs to crush worker power
This claim violates Hanlon’s Razor<p>“Never attribute to malice, that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.”<p>Over-hiring, over-salarying and not anticipating the consequences of a pandemic and post-pandemic on business might qualify as “incompetence”<p>The thing that bothers me is this tone I&#x27;m seeing online and in particular in this discussion where people presume that a salary is owed no matter what, and that withdrawing that salary (as in a firing) is somehow always morally corrupt. I&#x27;m Gen X, so when I say &quot;we weren&#x27;t raised with the expectation that the world owed us anything&quot;, I mean it.<p>EDIT: A better discussion of Hanlon&#x27;s over here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fs.blog&#x2F;mental-model-hanlons-razor&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fs.blog&#x2F;mental-model-hanlons-razor&#x2F;</a><p>&quot;An instance of Hanlon’s razor being proven wrong is the mafia. Prior to the 1960s, the existence of the mafia was considered to be a conspiracy theory. Only when a member contacted law enforcement, did police realize that the malice being perpetrated was carefully orchestrated.&quot; (I was not aware of this!)