• theneverfox
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    30 days ago

    It’s because of groups like McKinsey. I used to think it was contagious stupidity, and it is, but it’s also an engineered push

    How does it make sense that if you make record profit because of your workers, laying them off will make line go up even more?

    Like sure, temporarily you’re cutting costs, but what happens in 5 years when you have nothing new to sell? What happens in a month when customers start dropping you because you can’t provide the support you promised?

    Consulting companies like McKinsey hack the system. They advice the company to cut people, then go to investor groups to say “these companies that did layoffs are about to shoot up, the ones that didn’t follow our advice will drop”

    And so it becomes true, and furthermore corporations have to do it or the stock drops and they get replaced. Investors have to play along, whether they buy the fantasy or not, because until reality hits it is true

    RTO? Layoffs? Getting rid of your snacks? Wage suppression? The financial crash? Enron? S&F? The list of controversies, mind you, only the ones revealed through open court, are a long and crazy read

    These people are literally the elites pulling strings to destroy everything good