Are you sure droids aren't modeled after CEOs?

Unfortunately, there's no great way to say "we're firing 18% of all employees." If you're whimsical or casual, you'll be blasted for not taking these people's lives seriously. If you're gloomy in solidarity with their misfortune, your stock takes a hit as it looks like your company has lost hope. Most announcements like this are written in business-ese because there's no great "human" response that really works.

Yeah, IMO it's really easy to read between the lines with something like this. It's not like he's trying to disguise his meaning. What is ultimately communicated is:

- I don't enjoy having to do this.

- We need to do this to keep making money at the rate we want to.

Of all the things in corporate America to worry about, the wording of layoff emails is pretty far down the list.

A billionaire who basically stole money from their employees and he calls them "brothers and sisters" while laying them off, I do think its something that America should finally start worrying about, yes.

I don't know about this theft you speak of, but surely that issue is tangential to the point about exactly how he worded a layoff email. Theft is bad on its own, no need to conflate it with unrelated matters.

There's no good way to say it, but there are bad ways and this one is more bad than good.

Including "But I think we all know this is necessary to move forward." is certainly a shitty thing to say in a letter like this, EVEN IF IT IS TRUE.

He writes like he's trying to evoke JFK, when in reality he evokes Richard Nixon.