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> Your "waste" is the salary of tens of thousands of smart engineers that put significant chunks of their lifetime into the company to enable their family (prob
by ac29 2y ago
> Your "waste" is the salary of tens of thousands of smart engineers that put significant chunks of their lifetime into the company to enable their family (probably) a comfortable middle-class lifestyle.
The only layoffs Intel mentioned specifically are in sales and marketing. Does this change how you feel?
edit: As a reference, last quarter Intel spent ~$4.4B on R&D and ~$1.6B on SGA (sales, general, and administrative).
- 0x000xca0xfe 2y agoNo, it doesn't. I did not comment because of Intel specifically but because many comments I have read about similar mass layoffs tend to dehumanize ordinary workers for being "useless bloat" while completely ignoring that the root cause of the problems is moronic decisions by higher-ups. Mass layoffs that unexpectedly upend the lives of thousands of people are basically guaranteed to cause a couple deaths by suicide, ruined families or homelessness so at least have some basic human decency when talking about those that are affected most.