at what point is a business allowed to be a business and run itself for profit (even more than it is making now) without being “judged” for the mean stuff it has to do?
it isn’t personal that it gave people a job and then took it away
they don’t owe it to anybody to sacrifice their profit so others can have a job
> at what point is a business allowed to be a business and run itself for profit (even more than it is making now) without being “judged” for the mean stuff it has to do?
Never. The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, losing homes, filling prisons. The majority stockholders are of the CEO class. They aren't in any danger of life-impacting loss if they have a lick of financial sense. Dividends to the cronies and axe to the peasants is never going to be popular with anybody but cronies and bootlickers.
A company can run itself without regard for anything but profit. That's been a winning strategy for quite a while now. There's no amount of money they can make that will prevent them being judged for it though.
It's always interesting that some focus more on those who speak their minds about something than the actual actions taken that are being criticized, as if the real problem is people having opinions and speaking freely about them. It feels like the root sentiment is "X can do whatever they want, but you're not allowed to do the same by saying anything about it."
Salesforce did this way before anyone else, during the actual pandemic.
M$FT has been quietly doing this for eons. It's just that they are good at doing this without laying off a massive number of people at a time. So for M$FT this layoff seems like it's about posturing and being "in line" with the market, which makes it even crappier than it really is.
it isn’t personal that it gave people a job and then took it away
they don’t owe it to anybody to sacrifice their profit so others can have a job