The ones out of job can join a different company, america’s unemployment rate especially in the tech sector tends to be low.
Them doing layoffs doesnt mean the people become destitute.
It is better to layoff people who are not adding value to a company, so that those newly unemployed folks can join a different company and build great products and add more value to the economy.
Ofcourse this only applies to US tech sector where hiring is tight. Especially when coming out of top tier companies like dropbox on your resume.
I don’t think its that dramatic, folks who tend to hold similar ideologies like you state, tend to not even bat a single eye, when average americans who lack the privilege of a tech worker lose their job to automation (with tech) or outsourcing or due to overburdened climate regulations and redtape leading to fewer factory jobs in America.
This is not the titanic, those people will move on to places where they’ll have a chance for promotion.
Whenever people are laid off where you work, I suppose you always volunteer to take their place? Since according to you it's only such a minor inconvenience I think it would be hypocritical of you to not to offer to take their place.
Grandparent is not even saying that it should be avoided, just that the CEO should face some accountability from it. In many cases they have none at all, whereas the impact on the employees can range from actually quite low (as in your example) to very high. In fact there is no upper ceiling to impact to the worker which is the real problem. From the horror stories I've heard about the US they could even lose health insurance and end up with someone in the family dying because they can't afford treatment. Accountability is good precisely when there are such asymmetrical power imbalances, where one person makes the decision and someone else bears all the consequences. Either you add some feedback loops or the imbalance grows unchecked until it becomes unsustainable, and eventually you end up with a war of independence, or a French revolution and things like that.
With just a bit of empathy it should be easy to understand why accountability is needed in such situations to keep a good social dynamic long term. Someone with the empathy of a river boulder might think it's just people behaving irrationally, but I suggest you look into game theory and you'll see how some seemingly irrational behaviours like tit-for-tat are not as irrational as they seem.
>The ones out of job can join a different company, america’s unemployment rate especially in the tech sector tends to be low.
>Ofcourse this only applies to US tech sector where hiring is tight.
So, which is it? Will we move on or wont we?
>tend to not even bat a single eye, when average americans who lack the privilege of a tech worker lose their job to automation (with tech) or outsourcing
They keep trying to re-outsource tech every decade and we're in another wave. Why would I not be batting all my eyes at outsourcing?
> its emotional folks like you who end up getting taken advantage of by communist / socialist / comrade like ideologies
Oh, so anyone who disagrees with you is a communist / socialist? Hate to break it to you, but I'm a red blooded American capitalist that has a few criticisms to make the system better and freer. You cannot have liberty in today's world without a job - you will be homeless, on the street, and freezing, and society has decided that applying resources to that problem is a waste of time. That doesn't mean anybody "owes" you a job, but not even remotely considering the consequences of layoffs is bloodless and heartless and ultimately a detriment both personally to the person laid off (though no fault of their own, after all, just wanting to juice those stock numbers!) and to the US economy as a whole. And god forbid you're here on an H1B visa - better pack your shit and get out if some corporate overlord decrees so.
Have a good day as well - not everyone that disagrees with you is a communist. Get therapy for your problems.
Them doing layoffs doesnt mean the people become destitute.
It is better to layoff people who are not adding value to a company, so that those newly unemployed folks can join a different company and build great products and add more value to the economy.
Ofcourse this only applies to US tech sector where hiring is tight. Especially when coming out of top tier companies like dropbox on your resume.
I don’t think its that dramatic, folks who tend to hold similar ideologies like you state, tend to not even bat a single eye, when average americans who lack the privilege of a tech worker lose their job to automation (with tech) or outsourcing or due to overburdened climate regulations and redtape leading to fewer factory jobs in America.
This is not the titanic, those people will move on to places where they’ll have a chance for promotion.