• GeekyOnion@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Although I happen to work in “Big Tech,” I’m a huge supporter of this in principle. I’m 100% convinced, however, that the tech “leaders” won’t get burned, it’ll be the individual contributors that are going to be sacrificed.

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      We see it already begun with Microsoft working to dump 27% of its employees, expect much more of this.

      You are correct, in various ways individuals will be sacrificed.

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        Even if that occurs, the money should go to the employees through unemployment, not to the companies where it goes to the top and the employees get nothing.

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    Yeah I’ll believe it when I see it in action. The 4 richest people in the world have most of their wealth in this bullshit. That much money can stop anything with the right bribes.

    Nothing will meaningfully change until money is taken out of politics.

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    According to Zitron, there’s no realistic way to bail it out anyway. You can’t just bail out a falling stock market.

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      Of course not, but MAGA will come up with some dumb premise to give a zillion dollars to a bunch of Sociopathic Oligarchs anyway. They don’t care if it actually works, the objective is to give more money to billionaires.

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      Remove the wealth from the top 10%. Then abolish and criminalize the sick market. Problem solved.

      Edit: autocorrect failed successfully, I’m leaving it

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        23 hours ago

        Top 5-10% are just people with a solid retirement account or had professional jobs like doctors and lawyers, maybe some programmers. Not the country destroying hoarder billionaires

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    They’re proposing that the Fed prioritize the needs of citizens over corporations? Good luck with that, America. Seriously. Good thing there’s so much precedent for that argument working. At all.

    Pardon my cynicism, but like… Gestures to everything in the last 50 years

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      23 hours ago

      No. This week was only a little shakiness. If it continues plummeting for several more weeks, it might have been the start. But when this Bible pops, the US economy will be in full recession/depression territory