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The Google layoffs are about personal ambition and poor leadership

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Re: The Google layoffs are about personal ambition and poor leadership

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You asserted that Robinhood is evidence that "labor" in general has access to "rich-get-richer" mechanisms. My assertion is that this assertion is not valid. The rich-get-richer mechanism in question is investing pre-existing large amounts of money in investments that are more or less zero risk, specifically from the perspective of the investor's personal livelihood and well-being. This is simply not available to mos…

Many poor people trading cryptocurrencies made a pile of money. The newspaper was filled with their stories for a couple years. Of course, many lost money, too. No risk => no gain The point is, they could invest in the markets, despite being poor.

Off of whom did they make that money?

Re: The Google layoffs are about personal ambition and poor leadership

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If they have real skills they can find employment else where. They are whining because they know they were being over compensated at Google and that they are unlikely to be able to find another job that pays so much money with so little effort. They're not my enemies but they're not my friends. I don't feel sympathy for them. If anything, they should feel sympathy for me and give me some of that extra cash they've be…

I think your frustration is better directed at capitalism in general instead of your fellow workers. Also if you can do their job as well as them, go spend time studying how to interview at Google and get a job there too.

Why would I direct my "frustration" at capitalism? I want to exploit capitalism to get rich.
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