2024 has seen two mass layoffs at Microsoft, with 1900 staff laid off in January, before a further 650 Xbox employees were shown the door in September.

Regardless, Microsoft’s shares are up and the company’s market value is now higher than $3tn, as it works to capitalise on the rise of AI.

  • @rottingleaf
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    -3326 days ago

    Is that your reading comprehension or my bad English?

      • @rottingleaf
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        -1426 days ago

        OK.

        The CEO is supposed to maximize the profits of investors or owners or whatever, not act like in this example.

        Just like the government to which you pay taxes is supposed to use it for some public good.

        Neither do what they are supposed to do, because that requires some kind of checks by a mechanism above both, and there’s no such.

        Is that more clear, or have my bad English and bad explaining skills failed you again?

        • @syreus
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          1226 days ago

          This is much better but your previous comment was awful. It read like a LLM alone wrote it.

          That being said I can’t tell you why specifically it reads like that. I’m forwarding it to my friend who is a English professor to find out. If English is your second language then just keep at it and please don’t take the criticism here personally.

          • @rottingleaf
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            -426 days ago

            Inconsistency of style most likely.

    • @HerrBeter
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      1326 days ago

      Great reply. I’m not into escalation. Only read the “taxes is theft”

      • @rottingleaf
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        -1126 days ago

        OK. I further made equivalence between that CEO and the government which you charge with making use of taxes.