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Layoffs are largely avoidable: stay profitable, avoid expanding too fast, treat employees well, and (time vested) worker-owned co-op.


Argument can be made, the workers that are losing their jobs wouldn’t have these jobs at all if they didn’t expand, IPO out and etc.


They would have a different job already and wouldn't have to go through a layoff and find a job in a time where most tech companies are in hiring freeze.


You appear to be making workers out to be helpless and dependent and should be thankful for the "benevolent generosity" of corporate greed and mismanagement. Advocating Amazon is generous for giving workers the privilege of urinating in bottles doesn't have a good ring to it.

Perhaps workers should change the structures of where they work with fractional ownership and a cut of the value they helped to create?




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