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testeronious@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees

www.theverge.com

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Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees

www.theverge.com

testeronious@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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170 people are being laid off by the popular messaging app.
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    To be clear, I’m not defeneding this pratice but explaining it. This cycle is how large businesses operate to foster growth over time.

    • Lay off people to tell stock holders they are becoming more efficient.
    • wait
    • Hiring spree, announce new features, new directions, hype hype hype
    • wait
    • Lay offs! Trimming overhead! Streamlining! Much efficency! Good business!
    • wait
    • Hyyyyyyype! Discord announces a plan to replace iMessage, Email and the entire concept of texting! Triples their staff! Such hype!

    Rinse, repeat

    It’s horrific for the employees and a scathing indictment as capitalism as a whole. But, this is how large businesses work, not nessecarily a massive corporate slip up.

    Here is a lawyer explaining the “dance steps” that the game industries is doing as of late.

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      That may have been true during the lavish times of ZIRP, but I wouldn’t expect to see this dance any longer, at least until money is cheap/free again.

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        Money is always cheap for capitalists. Even the hardest of times is only hard for people without money.

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          This shows a complete misunderstanding of cheap money

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      Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

      Here is a lawyer explaining the “dance steps” that the game industries is doing as of late.

      Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

      I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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      UNIONIZE

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      Damn, this was very insightful. Thx for sharing!!! 😁

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