It's just figure of speech. The meaning in this case is I choose to have sympathy for those that are really down and out not rich tech workers. The main reaso

It's just figure of speech. The meaning in this case is I choose to have sympathy for those that are really down and out not rich tech workers. The main reason I choose not to have sympathy for them is because they are rich (comparatively) tech workers. The main drivers of sympathy (at least for me) are how well you know or identify with someone and how dire their situation is. I don't know anyone personally in Ukraine, but they have all my sympathy because their situation is truly horrible. Likewise, I don't know any of the laid off Twitter workers. But their situation is anything but dire or even bad. They might think it is, but objectively, it is not. It might turn out to be the best thing to happen in their life actually. So no sympathy there. Look, your scope of sympathy is different that mine. Yours includes rich laid off tech workers and mine doesn't. I think that's ok. You're comfortable with your boundaries and I'm comfortable with mine. I don't think I'm a bad person for it. If you think so, you're 100% entitled to your opinion. Let's leave it at that.