Untrue. They overhired and were content to keep building up warchests of IP using those drones, then a billionaire wrote them a tersely worded letter and they responded by acting in solidarity (conspiring actually) to force austerity on famously well-compensated tech workers who they feel they can AT LEAST partially be replaced by AI.
Reading stuff like this is so crazy. They just go “hey 150k is a nice big number and should be plenty of heads, let’s just just take way the livelihoods of tens of thousands of actual people to make a number look nicer”
Untrue. They overhired and were content to keep building up warchests of IP using those drones, then a billionaire wrote them a tersely worded letter and they responded by acting in solidarity (conspiring actually) to force austerity on famously well-compensated tech workers who they feel they can AT LEAST partially be replaced by AI.
Reading stuff like this is so crazy. They just go “hey 150k is a nice big number and should be plenty of heads, let’s just just take way the livelihoods of tens of thousands of actual people to make a number look nicer”
At least they didn’t choose 100k or 10k
/s partially