[JumpCrisscross]

> 600 is a lot of human beings, and it follows a recent trend of tech companies' mass layoffs

It’s absurd to describe this as a mass layoff even relative to the 5,000 people Apple employed for this project alone. If a company can’t lay off a few hundred people after cancelling a major project, we’ve effectively banned it from taking risks.

[rchaud]

Mass layoffs are not illegal, so I'm not sure what you're getting at with the bit about companies taking risks.

[JumpCrisscross]

> I'm not sure what you're getting at with the bit about companies taking risks

It’s clearly being criticised. If a culture rejects a company hiring five thousand and taking a bet with them for a decade, only for the bet to fail and six hundred be let go, that’s problematic.