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The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers?::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The same reason everything costs more without there being inflation, greed and the never ending desire to make the line go up. At the end of the day that’s all a publicly traded company cares about. Line go up. They will do whatever they can legally, or hidden from legal scrutiny to make that happen.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

I think that's synonymous with "all hail the shareholder"