The rich get richer and the poor get more AI edited and toned condolence posting.
As someone not good at identifying this myself, what about this post indicates AI editing?
Patreon laying off 20% of staff
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Re: Patreon laying off 20% of staff
#42The only possible positive thing out of this cringy article is that the severance is decent (for a US company). 4 months of pay and healthcare coverage through Year end. Everything else could have just been a couple of sentences.
Companies need to stop doing this melodrama every time they decide to fire people. Everyone knows the goal is to make money and keep a company profitable for their shareholders. Why these melodramatic posts ? People would prefer honesty. Just say "We need to increase our profits or reduce costs or both and hence we have to lay people off. Here is what we are providing as a severance". That's it.
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I don't know where you get your info but according to [1], programming makes an appearance before anything NSFW shows up lol.
Re: Patreon laying off 20% of staff
#44Honestly the most interesting thing to me here is that to took nearly 500 people to run Patreon.
To me it's always mindblowing how the headcount of a startup can massively increase and the company still be considered a "success story".
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#45How could Chapo do this? /s
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#46No matter what, people who write articles about layoffs like this go straight onto my 'people to stay far away from' list. He is on it since the crying video of the last round of layoffs.
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I don't know where you get your info but according to [1], programming makes an appearance before anything NSFW shows up lol. [1] https://graphtreon.com/top-patreon-earners
Truth be told, this was when I looked a few years back. Maybe they tightened up their policies since.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
And why exactly do you feel obligated to mention that? Do you have a problem with porn? Why?
Yeah, let's just say if you take a closer inspection, some may or may not be ethical even for porn. Not exactly great for branding either.
It's taking a play from organized religion: control access to sex and you control the population
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#49What is it with companies doing mass-layoffs and stating no reasons whatsoever, in fact giving reasons why there's no need: > Second, Patreon’s core business is healthy and strong, and we’re going to be a rock for creators for decades to come. Hundreds of thousands of creators rely on Patreon for their livelihoods, businesses, ... > We’re reducing the size of our team by 20%, or ...
Depends on jurisdiction, in many European countries a company with more than 300 employees can't do these kind of layoffs without giving a concrete reason, and if they do they need to close down a whole office location (e.g. we're closing our LA office, only SF office remains).
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#50> A $1,500 stipend to replace your company laptop. It seems like a wild choice to give a specific figure as additional cash rather than just letting them keep their (wiped) laptop. That additional cash will be taxed (as should a laptop that is left with the ex-employee, but the used laptop can be valued and taxed as a used laptop rather than a $1500 cash payment [and frankly would often be, um, overlooked...). It see…
With RAM prices how they are right now the used laptops might be more valuable than $1500.