Hollow Domination these days. A parasite eating the host. A large chunk of the profits from American Corporate Wonderland are not due to their offerings on Sec

Hollow Domination these days. A parasite eating the host. A large chunk of the profits from American Corporate Wonderland are not due to their offerings on Security, Quality, Service or Product, but through playing market capture/cross border financial engineering games. Learning takes time. And most people take time learning how to build things they need themselves. After which they realize they don't need to pay Microsoft rent. This is what any half decent hacker learns with time too. And now we see it happening in China, India etc. As we see them getting less dependent and offering the same services back to the West at much cheaper prices, what happens at Microsoft is obvious, because this story has played out many times in American Corporate Wonderland - https://www.geekwire.com/2024/microsoft-lays-off-employees-in-new-round-of-cuts/ https://www.geekwire.com/2024/microsoft-lays-off-employees-i... > Last year, companies laid off more than 260,000 employees