Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoAll of STEM is suffering because of corporate greed and rising anti-intellectualism.
How do I say that even … it’s normal. When you are talking about infinite growth being unsustainable, that means that at some point the industry should implode.
They have sort of an oligopoly and stagnation now, which is why all these layoffs happen - the “AI” solves some problems cheaper than people, even accounting for the worse results.
But if we imagine the industry suddenly destroying that oligopoly and becoming interesting again, it still would require less people.
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
I’m not saying there wouldn’t be layoffs without it, but it certainly would be better. I know from experience that a lot of the people that were laid off were a critical part of the team, and those that remained had to bare that load. It has burned me out several times, because I’m doing work that should be done by two or three people.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Then it’ll even out after some time.
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
I sure hope that “some time” is coming soon, because I’m exhausted after three years and counting.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
A couple more world wars with a depression, something like that. Just 20 years more