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  I agree to some extent because there are some jobs where there's an uproar about job losses, but all the time other people lose jobs with no uproar.
context: I honestly agree, but don’t boo me just yet. Big tech companies usually are very departmentalised, so you have entire teams of people working on every little thing. If you’ve ever done group projects in college, you’d probably know that in low-stakes team settings you usually have 3/10 people doing 90% of the work. A lot of people are also GROSSLY overpayed. I live in the Bay Area and know the salary disparities between small and large businesses. If you are a nobody at Google you’re making $100k+ these days almost regardless of your actual use to the company. MANY people are also network hires, who just happen to have friends/family at the company. Sure, you may not be rich with that money here, but you’re still better off than a person doing the same job at a smaller company AND you’ll have those big name companies on your resume, which is almost guaranteed to get you hired quickly. If you can demonstrate that you’re a valuable employee - most of the time you’ll keep your job. If you’re not, well, welcome to reality. >
  
  So you have no sympathy for people losing their jobs, cool. Also how do you know people had large salaries >
  
  So there are people that make 6 figures at Twitter and there are people that make under that. You have to realize that at even at a giant company like Twitter not everyone is paid equally. You also have to consider what the person making 100k a year family situation is. If they make that and have a family of 4 it’s different if they have a salary of that and are single. >
  
  I personally know several people at FAANG companies who are entry level, make over 150k, and can't tell me what they do on a day to day basis (not because it's a secret, they actually don't know what to do) and they've been there for almost a year. All these people I know love their jobs and I don't blame them at all. >
  
  with every one wanting to work from home something has to give. gone are the days that only factory jobs get sent to other countries. >
  
  Some of the tech workers dug their own grave.  They claim they get their job done in just a few hours each day and spend the rest reading reddit.  Enough people say that it's bound that higher ups will start thinking they have to many people.  
  Really this just proves again their is no recession proof job that is 100 percent safe. >
  
  Besides medicine. >
  
  Even medicine is not a fool proof answer.  Elective surgery decreases and people don't go in for minor injuries as often since they can't afford the part health insurance doesn't cover.  Older people don't move into nursing homes as soon instead they move in with their kids.  
  I know the small local hospitals really suffered last recession.  Now I will admit with covid that might be less of an issue than it was in the past >
  
  Damn dude, what an insensitive post. A lot of these jobs are in HCOL areas, so of course salaries are high. It’s expensive to live in SF, NYC, Seattle, Boston, etc. I make healthy 6-figures but I still can’t afford to live in the city because shits expensive. Bought a fixer upper in the burbs and commute 90+ mins to work. 
  People getting laid off are at risk of not being able to put food on the table or becoming homeless. Many of these people are older and have families. Idk where you get the idea that of the tens of thousands of laid off workers, it’s all young adults with useless jobs??? 
  What do you do for work, and why do you think you’re more important than someone with an “obscure marketing role” at a tech company? Or that your livelihood has more value? Smh >
  
  I know my job could fire me at any point.  I know I could be laid off at any point.  I don’t cherish my job and I always have a back up plan ready for when it fails.  And I’ve gone through and looked at who they laid off.  Most were random financial, marketing, and design staff.  They all made good salaries.  Mean while factory workers and low income workers get laid off while making 1/3rd of the salary and no one bats an eye >
  
  What expertise do you have to have the first clue of the value of the roles played by these "random financial, marketing, and design staff"? Your cursory review of who was laid off is meaningless, and not just because you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. It's one thing to proudly sport your ignorance, quite another thing to lack so much empathy for people losing their livelihood though. >
  
  My expertise is companies are cutting from marketing and accounting departments by the thousands and it’s not affecting them.  Those people weren’t important to the company and were making large sums of money. I don’t care about them.  No one cares about factory workers and blue collar workers who make 60k a year. Why have sympathy for rich people who will be rehired by a competitor in a heart beat. >
  
  
  Most of these cuts just happened or are currently happening. You have no idea how they are impacting or will impact these companies because nowhere near enough time has passed. You don't have expertise on this, I'm not sure you know what that means.
  Most of those people were not making large sums of money. 6 figures is not a large sum of money if you have to live near a tech hub, especially if you have a family with kids. The fact alone that you seem to think otherwise proves you have no idea what you're talking about.
  People have protested, bitched, moaned, elected an orange con man to save their blue collar $60k job for better part of the last 15 years. What the fuck are you talking about?
  A $60k a year factory job usually doesn't require you to live near a major tech hub where the cost of living is insane. These are relative figures.
  It's not the fault of tech workers that what factory workers do, on average, is less marketable and therefore typically pays less. It's illogical to even bring that into it.
  None of the above is in any way a comment on the sickening lack of empathy you've displayed toward people losing their livelihood. >
  
  These are generally young and highly qualified people who'll find new well-paid employment easily. 
  They're not like factory workers whose jobs have been moved overseas because of cheaper labour costs or who have been replaced by machines.
  Nevertheless, a time will come, and soon, when middle ranking tech employees will lose their employment to the very programmes they have worked to develop. In a sense, this has already started to happen. The moderators who had been policing Twitter pre-Musk have been replaced with AI because, amongst other qualities, AI is far more politically objective. >
  
  
  tech employees will lose their employment to the very programmes they have worked to develop. 
  
  Not really, unless they’re working on AI tools for software development. >
  
  Layoffs happen. 
  I’d rather businesses be fiscally responsible so they can stay in business, to continue employing people. 
  People who get outraged over layoffs almost always know nothing about business >
  
  If the largest most profitable companies are doing layoffs that doesn't look good for us plebs in less profitable industries. >
  
  The Twitter one is definitely an unreasonable response because many companies already announced the mass layoff because Twitter and yet, no one cares about that and believe only Twitter does it. It was exceptionally double standard.
  If people actually cared, sure, I think eveyeone should feel sympathy for all the people who is losing their jobs, including the people who didn't work in tech industry.
  I hate the people who laughs at those people who lost their jobs in other industries and calling them lazy and etc.
  Sympathy should have been applied to eveyeone. >
  
  You are allowed to have your own opinion even if it is unconventional and unpopular. But your post is a very good example of how one can be confidently incorrect and further discredit one's own opinion with bad grammar.
  Over time, any process goes through optimizations and automations resulting in efficiency gain, which basically means that something that needed 10 people 2 years ago, may now need 6-8 people for the same output. That is one healthy form of downsizing, if you will. However as is being shared by all companies, these layoffs are due to restructuring. It's not like you wake up one day and realize, oh my company is the top social media site so I don't need to do marketing anymore. Or you realize you have a team dedicated to market research and you decide not to do it so you fire them. You can't function like that unless you want to be a coke-high Elon musk. Departments are merged, scope gets reduced or modified and the overall direction the company is going in also change. Additionally not all the people being laid off earn a lot and this has not only impacted Americans, get your American head out of your American ass for once. 
  I do not care about these layoffs because I'm not directly affected and I have my own shit to take care of. If you're gonna actually have an opinion on something, irrespective of whether it's common or not, do your goddamned research first before spewing it out as if you're something special. Jeez. >
  
  So basically you don’t care cause it’s not your problem >
  
  Yes because no one else cares when low income people get laid off so why not return that energy with high income earners.  Not everyone deserves sympathy. >
  
  If you find yourself taking pleasure in other peoples misfortune, you’re a complete asshole. End of story. 
  The workers earn pennies compared to the wealthy people at the top. You’ve been brainwashed to think we’re competing with each other in a fair environment, meanwhile we’re just getting the scraps. 
  Also, you can decry their salaries, but those wealthy people that fired them hired them on the promise of joining the company for that specific pay, not as a contractor, but as an employee. If the intent was to shed them when the market was disrupted they should have used contractors. They dangled FTE to attract people in a hurry and then pulled the rug out from under them. >
  
  Hey pal who do you think are the super wealthy?  Anyone making six figures is making almost double the national average salary.  I don’t care about them being laid off.  They signed onto a job without a contract protecting them or guaranteeing pay when they get let go that’s a them problem.  We don’t cry and uproar when the factory workers all over get laid off or let go for the 15th time in a year.  Why should I care about a tech person who makes 3x that of blue collared workers.