Comment on Amazon’s Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff
gastationsushi@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Twitch is run like a private equity acquisition. The rates they are forced to pay their parent company, Amazon, are above market value. Twitch’s services will get worse and worse for both streamers and viewers until all the equity is sucked dry. Late stage capitalism y’all.
EnderMB@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Have you got a source on that?
I’d be shocked if this were the case, since internal rates at pretty much any tech company (source: I work there) are anything from 50-99% reduced.
gastationsushi@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I heard from a bigger streamer. But I started believing it because feeds degrade lot more than YT. I constantly get connection issues more than any other streaming service.
I’m vested in some of these smaller streamers, so I don’t want them to lose their income. It feels like twitch is exploiting this sentiment because I’m not alone.
Haha@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I hope you keep your job
EnderMB@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s not internal information. It’s pretty much common knowledge across tech that companies arrange a rate card with their provider. In the instance of Twitch, even though they’re mostly a separate entity to the rest of Amazon, they’ll almost definitely have a rate card set for AWS resources.
Sarmyth@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think they meant because 500 people who also work there are losing their jobs.