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Amazon is said to plan to lay off thousands of employees

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And they say we are not in a recession.

Probably we are in for a prolonged stagnation, but even after 11,000 layoffs last week, Meta’s employment level is on par with early 2022, hardly a massive reduction historically.

This sounds like the realtors that say “interest rates are still historically low”

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Looks like a lot of new people will rush to http://www.bestpaidremotejobs.com again. The latest wave of followers came due to the latest Twitter and Meta layoffs.

Starting to feel like that site is a bit like the guy selling pickaxes to prospectors who have little chance of finding any gold.

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And they say we are not in a recession.

I get we've been cooking the books and printing money during COVID, but shouldn't there be a raw productivity explosion in the US economy with COVID restrictions lifting? Suppressed consumption, increased output, etc? This does seem like some weird massive manipulation of the economy by the elites to grab more wealth and control. Or it's just some collective revenge against the various antiwork / worker empowerment /…

Total consumption did not change with Covid, it just went from one part of the economy to another. Kind of like squeezing a balloon - same amount of air, just in a different part of the vessel.

As for the massive amount of manipulation, that was done in plain sight. The fed had injected $$$ and low interest rates into the economy since 2009 and finally the spigot stopped.

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There has been a lot of talk about a correction coming and a bubble bursting specifically in tech for years now. Is this it?

Probably? But it's mostly just a return to sanity at this point, though it probably will overshoot as these things usually do. Meta going from 47K employees in 2019 to 81K employees in about 3 years was just crazy, for example. How do you even assimilate that many new employees in such a short time?

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> In 2018, Echo and Alexa lost about $5 billion, said a person with knowledge of the finances. When Amazon introduced new devices this fall in an annual event, it was notably more restrained than past years when it had featured zany products like a sticky note printer and $1,000 home robot.

$5B loss from one business line is a lot. Maybe this manner of investment inspired Zuck on the metaverse.

Re: Amazon is said to plan to lay off thousands of employees

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And they say we are not in a recession.

I get we've been cooking the books and printing money during COVID, but shouldn't there be a raw productivity explosion in the US economy with COVID restrictions lifting? Suppressed consumption, increased output, etc? This does seem like some weird massive manipulation of the economy by the elites to grab more wealth and control. Or it's just some collective revenge against the various antiwork / worker empowerment /…

Did COVID suppress consumption or just redirect it? Less restaurant meals and more PS5s, and now the pendulum swings the other way as people socialize in person again.

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There has been a lot of talk about a correction coming and a bubble bursting specifically in tech for years now. Is this it?

the correction is happening now. the pandemic pushed all these tech companies up artificially. they hired in record numbers to meet demand and thought it would be permanent/the new floor. The economy has since rebounded and companies are returning to previous levels. The war isn't helping however
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