While these cash stockpiles are private property of those corporations they provide great public benefit, at least to the tech public, as absence of big layoffs

While these cash stockpiles are private property of those corporations they provide great public benefit, at least to the tech public, as absence of big layoffs at big corporations during hard times makes for much better situation for everybody working in the tech. I.e. those stockpiles are the best guarantee we have against repeating of 2002/2003.