[danny_codes]

They’ve gotten better at addiction-engineering. Like making super-cocaine, it’s not a good thing. Essentially they took a dubiously ethical business and ramped it into, “actively harmful to almost everyone”. Any reasonable country would ban half the ads that make it onto FB/Insta. FB themselves admit 10% of their ad traffic is literal scammers.

[HDThoreaun]

Sure, but youre just talking about semantics here. When Mark asks himself "have we been successful" your definition of success is irrelevant. If the lay offs were because of the company had no successes as the OP posits you have to reason from the decision makers definition of success.

[adi_kurian]

Is your baromiter of success the acquisition of cash?

[lelanthran]

> Is your baromiter of success the acquisition of cash?

Who cares? In the context of layoffs, it's the definition the company uses that matters.

Your definition of success has no bearing on whether the company is going to do layoffs or not. The company's definition does.