FFS. What is it with these weirdo "leader" types and the all lower case writing? Are they trying to come off as "cool" in the "hello fellow children" way or are they just implying they are so important, they don´t even have to observe the rules of writing and grammar?
Layoffs at Block
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#802Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It's harder to layoff someone you have had beers or coffee with Interesting, in my experience this hasn't mattered at all. Generally those close enough to an employee to have had beers with them aren't the ones making any decisions related to layoffs, and may themselves be on the chopping block.
Network higher up the stack and be extremely likable
I'm not going to go out of my way to kiss asses, of that's what you mean.
I don't avoid people higher up the org chart, our paths will just rarely cross and we generally are leading pretty different lives.
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>Speaking for my country I like how none of you ever reveal this mysterious country you're from, probably so you don't get called on the claims you're making. Anyway, in my country unemployment is 0% and everyone is rich and there are no problems. Why can't your country achieve the same?
As an example, the comment you're replying to is true for The Netherlands
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> i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold. So deeply ironic considering he claims he’s doing this because AI can do the jobs these people did. These billionaires will learn one day that removing humans doesn’t stop at the bottom layer. It’ll continue to happen at layers above until their own position starts to be put into question. They’ll realize those people who are removed due to AI taking the…
I do genuinely wonder about the endgame here. Why would the objective winners of the _current_ system, our billionaire class, want to disrupt that system? Do they really believe that they will necessarily be winners in the new world too, are they that arrogant?
They already understand the current system and status quo is going away. They understand, on some level, the consequences of the technocapitalist system they've built and perpetuated.
They're making their own accommodations, rather than trying to change the course: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prep...
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It feels incredibly performative. Same with sama.
Of course it's performative. They're all presumably on Apple devices. They literally went to their settings to disable auto-capitalization to make some kind of ridiculous point, i.e. "I'm too important too think about capital letters".
I think it’s worse actually, I think the point is “I’m too chill and down to earth, I’m just like you fellow kids”
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Block isn't a jobs program, and employees cost money. Layoffs suck (I got laid off last year) but the reality is that it's a business and regardless of profitability, if you're not worth more than your salary you're a liability. The severance given is quite generous and fair. My biggest issue is that Block should never have grown so big in the first place.
I'd encourage anyone wondering where this perspective comes from to read "Capitalist Realism" by Mark Fisher.
Mark Fisher is excellent. It will be interesting to see if his claim that the human face is required for capitalism's functioning will hold (does not look like it).
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#807I had never heard of Block before, but I visited their website and downloaded one of their open-source projects, Goose (an OpenCode alternative). I ran a very simple prompt on one of the projects I’m working on to implement a small feature. It ended up going into what seemed like an infinite loop and consumed three-quarters of my monthly Poe subscription on a single prompt. I uninstalled it immediately.
Never heard of them either. But the link in the title is to Jack Dorsey's tweet. Now him I have heard of. Didn't know he was involved in that company too.
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> I am in SFBA. Your reality may be different. With my current job search I've got the sense that sf is once again the place to be. Everything else kind of sucks, lots went back on remote work.
London is pretty hot right now. But lots of the jobs are Founding Engineer roles at startups which I’m deeply skeptical will get out of seed.
Founding Eng roles will ask you to take a cash haircut in return for equity.
absolutely be skeptical
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#809Whoever is that "jack", he should go back to school to learn how to use capital letters, commas, periods and all other difficult stuff. Or, just ask Chat GPT to write this kind of letters to the people. Maybe, after comparing "jack" writing with AI's writing company stakeholders would figure out, that maybe it is "jack", who should be replaced by some Open AI et. al. tools...
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#810Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do genuinely wonder about the endgame here. Why would the objective winners of the _current_ system, our billionaire class, want to disrupt that system? Do they really believe that they will necessarily be winners in the new world too, are they that arrogant?
They already understand the current system and status quo is going away. They understand, on some level, the consequences of the technocapitalist system they've built and perpetuated. They're making their own accommodations, rather than trying to change the course: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prep...
I think assuming human agency (building technocapitalism, correcting course) or the possibility to escape capitalism and its consequences (in bunkers), underestimates what capitalism is.