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Short term it doesn’t matter for Amazon, they are printing money but more challenging times are ahead and wouldn’t mind to reduce their headcount. Being “unhapp
by PedroBatista 2y ago
Short term it doesn’t matter for Amazon, they are printing money but more challenging times are ahead and wouldn’t mind to reduce their headcount. Being “unhappy” has been the staple of most Amazon employees since the beginning - see Yegge blog posts.
Tech jobs do not abound right now, so if they are going to do this, the moment is now.
The discussion if this is the right move or not ( for the future of the company) is one we could have, but in a way it’s like the peasants discussing the latest drama in the Royal family, at the of the day: who cares? They’ll be fine either way.
- odyssey7 2y agoAbout 250 years ago, some of the peasants in the Americas had beef with the royal family, and it changed the world.
- paulryanrogers 2y agoWere they peasants or land owning gentry?
- odyssey7 2y agoIf I remember correctly, there was a “Continental Army.” It wasn’t drawn from the whole continent, but it was enough to fight a whole war with the British army and win.
- brookst 2y agoWell yeah the peasants always do the actual fighting. But the impetus and leadership of the American Revolution was, I believe, mostly landed gentry.
- lesuorac 2y agoAt a time where the British were fighting an actual continental war in Europe lol. But anyways, the real point to be made is that it's not the peasants that revolted. But a bunch of merchants from NE that were unhappy about giving the crown money.
- Rinzler89 2y agoThe land owning gentry ofc. People still mistakenly romanticize the French revolution being about the poor killing the rich by guillotine, when it was actually the rich nobility (land owning gentry) getting the royalty beheaded via the publics' uprising. Same with the Russian revolution that got the Romanovs killed and replaced by the Soviets.
- dangitman 2y ago[dead]
- api 2y agoMost such conflicts are not the haves vs the have-nots but the just-gots vs the already-hads -- new money vs. old money. Most of the enlightenment-era revolutions in Europe were the newly minted mercantile rich overthrowing the old medieval rich and the Church of Rome. The US revolution was the colonial rich throwing off the yoke of the British crown and its taxes.
- Rinzler89 2y agoPretty much. It's just the poor getting new management.
- api 2y agoSometimes there are improvements for the poor though. My speculation there would be that the just-gots include some people who were poor recent enough that they or their immediate ancestors remember it. Class turnover is often a good thing.
- Rinzler89 2y ago>Class turnover is often a good thing. The results of the communist revolutions, especially in Russia, would beg to differ. Instead of being oppressed by the monarchy like they were before, the common people were then oppressed by the soviets. Whoop-de-do. You still have a gun to your head it's just who's behind the trigger that's different. Would you also apply this logic today? As in, would like a new class turnover in the country you live in hopes to fix the rampant wealth inequality? Because I don't think the poor would end up killing and robbing the likes of Trump, Biden, Zuckerberg, Bezos or Musk, but most likely the likes of you and me. Getting new management isn't always a good idea. The rich have the resources to move their wealth and be welcomed somewhere safe like Switzerland or Monaco, while only the poor have to suffer the consequences of the uprising.
- Rinzler89 2y agoIt changed the USA, it didn't change "the world". Where I'm originally from, nothing changed after the US revolution. Why do Americans seem to think the world always revolved around their country?
- odyssey7 2y agoCheck out the constitutions of democracies founded after the United States. There’s a whole lot of influence.
- Rinzler89 2y agoCheck out the constitutions of democracies founded after WW2.
- TheCoelacanth 2y agoAre you claiming that WW2 didn't change the world?
- Rinzler89 2y agoI'm claiming the opposite.
- klaussilveira 2y agoAre you saying that the American Revolution, which established the first modern constitutional republic, directly inspiring the French Revolution, Haitian Revolution, and rest of Atlantic Revolutions, famous for the "shot heard 'round the world", did not have any impact on the world?
- Rinzler89 2y agoYour examples are strictly former colonies of Britain. This was not the case in Continental Europe where the British had no colonies. By that logic Nazi Germany should also be credited for improving democracy around the world since its war with Britain, France, Netherlands and Belgium made them so weak post-WW2 that it allowed their former colonies to gain independence.
- noobermin 2y agoWorth looking up the history of Activision for a less grand and more analogous example.
- dangitman 2y ago[dead]
- dxxmxnd 2y agoMind linking the Yegge posts? I haven’t found the Amazon ones via google.