Fedora Program Manager Laid Off As Part Of Red Hat Cuts

[torsionbar28]

I don't want to go this off-topic, but this is a self-made crisis. You can't have infinite short-term quarterly gains with finite resources, a finite monetary supply, and a finite labor supply. They've bled the lower and middle classes dry so they only way to keep the numbers on the charts going up to please the bosses is to fire employees. They've already cut fringe benefits so all that's left is labor...and why they're bringing back child labor -- child labor is paid less.

A lot of these companies aren't firing people to reduce numbers. Every role that was just let go will be filled again, only the person coming in will be paid less than the person before. Since most people won't take a pay cut, they fire everyone (gotta love Right to Work) and wait for them to be desperate enough to take the same job at less pay. They have trillions and trillions sitting in banks that haven't seen the light of day since the 1800s. They have long-game waiting money. Companies like IBM do things like fire exactly 499 people a week because you have to have legitimate reasons for 500+ firings.

This is the 2nd coming of 1800s hyper-capitalism where practically everything is ran by a handful of corporations that don't pay well so the country gets so downtrodden and depressed that child labor seems like an acceptable alternative to starving to death and being homeless. That century is why we have all these rules and regulations that they're trying to dismantle.

Yowsa, this is some real crackpot conspiracy theory grade stuff right here.

[torsionbar28]

The antofa in my town just fought a few people that were peacefully demonstrating against the ukrainien war and our government that sends weapons there. And they are full of hate against white hetero men. This makes them racist, pro war and sexist.

Spot on. They're a low budget street gang for hate-filled middle class white kids who've failed at life and still live with their parents. It's embarrassing, really.

[jelabarre59]

ROFL, another Nostradamus type vague prediction that could mean anything. Layoffs happen all the time, it's part of reality in a capitalistic society. Managers are ordered to cut staff, and sometimes after they cut staff they are also cut.

I've thought for quite a while it was an inevitability. If not from the disaster of the scamdemic and our borked economy (FJB), then any number of other uncontrollable factor (or in some companies and some cases, poor business decisions)

It's like the trope that antifa is somehow a bad thing. Since when is being anti-fascist bad?

When they're actually fascists, but just pretending to be 'anti-fascist'?

[gotar]

Am I wrong thinking about 2 other issuess:

1. maybe RH impact on entire Linux ecosystem is not as much, as it was before - many projects were spread between dozen of other companies which make money and fund development by itself, not via their platform provider (~RH), so the middleman is not needed anymore (and that's a good thing, as long as these contributions find they way back to the open source),
2. or maybe, and that would be the dystopic view, they are approaching to the paradigm shift in the IT area towards the AI-assisted problem solving. By reducing the amount of time it takes to create all the boilerplate, scaffoldings, PoCs, prototyping and (at least fuzz) testing the amount of workers required would dramatically decrease. No more interns, no more dictatorship of IT. I guess the efficiency of single programmer could increase threefold with proper tooling; no more spending entire day at some obscure problem, no more chasing the undocumented library internals, no more hundreds of pages of unrelated answers and adverts from google. And if IT delivers in time, in par with demand, their salaries wouldn't be the bottleneck anymore. But first you need to get rid of the old-school ones.