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Yes, that's what I was trying to say.
by pyb 4y ago
Yes, that's what I was trying to say.
- Apocryphon 4y agoThis pop psych/business management article from Stanford calling it "social contagion", but it framed it in a reductive way so a lot of people on HN were mad at it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34339698 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34339698
- pyb 4y agoI thought what this Stanford professor said was rather sensible, but some people want to believe that the tech industry always functions in a rational way.
- Apocryphon 4y agoAlso a lot of people too easily fall for clickbait framing and they missed the point of the article, which is that layoffs have a lot of detrimental effects on people, don't always help the company, and can be sort of a cargo cult response to economic downturns. Instead they focused on the professor ignoring the actual economic causes, which is a fair critique but not the article's main thesis.