If you work at one of the large tech companies that, in the last few weeks [or months], have laid off thousands of employees, you may be wondering what the hell is going on. Especially if the company you’re working for is not actually struggling economically right now. If you work for Google, say, you must be thinking, “What is it about the coming recession that makes a company that’s doing just fine institute broad layoffs for the first time in its 23-year history?”
The answer, my friend, is class warfare.
The answer is that you were working at an overhyped over inflated company that was hiring too many people on the back of incredibly low interest rates, you weren’t providing any real actual productive value, and the economic correction has forced you to leave the big tech companies and go to the various banks and other institutions that have had severely dilapidated software for decades for your contributions will actually boost the economy and help people’s lives.
I have next to zero empathy for these software developers who were running around making 100k while committing code like twice a day which these big tech companies were absolutely filled the brim with and probably still have tons of.
You’re rolled the hype train and you got burned, you made your good money well it was still in low interest rate hike mode and now you need to get out and do something else.
Expect life to get even harder, because we don’t even need these programmers right now, not as much as we need people out there building homes and working in factories. Expect your pay to stagnate until being a construction worker looks more lucrative than your current job, and your job comes more and more into competition with an excess of people going into computer science because that’s where the money is, or that’s where it was 10 years ago.
-a software developer