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My job is laying off people every 6-12 months despite having immense reserves of wealth. Remind me how great the economy is?

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Man, it’s so great right now. Mark Zuckerberg increased his wealth by $29 billion just yesterday! People with fat stock portfolios are coming in here to tell us we’re wrong about the economy! It’s awesome!

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Ding ding! Record profits? Use a single measley lawsuit and rebrand+spin off your debt and liability, file for bankruptcy and live the American dream.

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Do you set fire to them or just fire them? Your username is a little disturbing in this context…

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In tech by any chance?

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God I hate how insular tech workers are. Anything that happens in tech, they think happens universally.

When the economy was tanking and tech was doing great: “the economy is very fair and just, you need to work harder bootstraps blah blah”

When house prices soared: “just buy a house in the middle of nowhere for dirt cheap and keep making your big city salary like me!”

Now the economy is doing great and tech is finally experiencing a correction: “omg the sky is falling!!”

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