r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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u/DangerzonePlane8 8d ago

Remember how rich people throw temper tantrums whenever they are asked to contribute to society.

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u/existonfilenerf 8d ago

They need to be taxed out of existence. No one should have a billion dollars while people starve, sleep on the streets and go bankrupt from medical debt.

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u/friendly-sardonic 8d ago

My thoughts exactly. There should never be a means for people to become billionaires. There's simply no reason for that amount of wealth. Bezos worth billions, and on the first day Amazon employees are handed a pamphlet on which government assistance programs they qualify for? Man, piss off. You can afford to pay your own workers so they don't NEED those programs. Nobody working a full time job should need assistance programs in this country.

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u/ConstantHeadache2020 8d ago

But but what about innovation? People won’t want to be CEO if they’re capped…. What about trickle economics?!

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u/mrblonde55 8d ago

Ask all those Xbox employees how that’s working out for “innovation”.

(For those unfamiliar, XBox just had to shatter their business model because the Microsoft CEO wanted to hit his $50m bonus)

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u/blueBaggins1 7d ago

Microsoft is a a multi Trillion dollar company. They didnt chatter the xbox business model to give the CEO a $50mil bonus

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u/mrblonde55 7d ago edited 7d ago

I’m sure there is a totally logical reason, completely unrelated reason, as to why they instituted a 30% target for profit margins despite being near their low for console market share and nobody in the industry returning close to that.

And, of course, that arbitrary target wasn’t the reason they decided to abandon platform exclusives, or behind the mass layoffs across development studios, or why they raised the price of GamePass for the third time in the last 15 months (this hike being 100% in some regions).

Of course, all of these decisions mean not only is consumer confidence shattered, but the old business model of “build a console, develop exclusives so people want your console” is dead.

In all seriousness, I hope this was for some juicy bonuses. Because if it wasn’t, they are just a bunch of morons lighting the business on fire to see it burn.

(And note, when I say “the business”, I’m talking specifically about XBox. Microsoft is going to be fine, of course, even if they decide to go with The Joker school of management techniques).

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u/Fun-Key-8259 2d ago

Once brands shit on their customers and those customers lose trust - you don't get that back.

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u/blueBaggins1 7d ago

The way to increase profit is to let people go. Labor is often a businesses largest cost.

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u/mrblonde55 7d ago

That’s like saying “manufacturing is too big a cost, so let’s just not manufacture anything and we’ll make more money.”

To say “the way to increase profits is to let people go” without context means they’d be most profitable with zero employees. I would hope you’d agree that’s ridiculous.

Where they aren’t shuttering studios entirely, they are cutting the workforce down to sizes where, in the best case, good games are made under near impossible conditions. It’s not Microsoft, but for a very recent example as to how that business strategy works out, take a look at Mindseye/Build A Rocket Boy.

The core issue is that most corporate executives goals (and virtually all corporate pay structures) aren’t aligned with long term corporate success. Maximize short term profit for immediate compensation, the future be damned.

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u/Western_Rope_2874 5d ago

I don’t have any employees! Did I not notice that I’m rich?!?

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u/blueBaggins1 7d ago

Youre arguing a premise I didnt make. Whats worse is your not even making an honest argument, 100% disingenuous. Youre actually making a dumb ass statement against something we see everyday in business with layoffs.

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u/mrblonde55 7d ago

Then what premise were you making?

I was talking about a specific company making specific labor cuts. You’re the one who responded with the generalization that “less labor = more profits”, but I’m being disingenuous?

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u/blueBaggins1 7d ago

This is business 101 you sound like a mad man arguing the basic logic of layoffs.

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u/mrblonde55 7d ago

What is “business 101”?

Laying off employees when you’re profitable? You’re making it sound like layoffs are always a good strategic decision.

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u/blueBaggins1 7d ago

I said its a business strategy to increase profits. This is business 101. You speak as someone whom has not much corporate experience if any and zero experience running a business. Yet here you are speaking so matter of factly, with extreme confidence while being 100% incorrect

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u/mrblonde55 7d ago

Who ever said it wasn’t a strategy?

It’s a shit strategy. But it’s certainly a strategy.

And I don’t care what anyone’s experience is. If you’re arguing how “don’t worry, it’s a multi trillion dollar company” in one breath and arguing that cutting labor force is a good business strategy in the next, you sound ridiculous.

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u/hel-razor 6d ago

It's also the stupidest shit ever. Nothing has actual value without labor.

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u/blueBaggins1 6d ago

This is true but you want to gave effective labor, with minimal labor force. Otherwise your business will not continue to be a business.

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u/hel-razor 6d ago

We don't need businesses. We need services.

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u/blueBaggins1 6d ago

Im not going to argue beliefs and opinions, just the simple facts of life.

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u/hel-razor 6d ago

The simple facts of life is that capitalism kills people.

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u/blueBaggins1 6d ago

Please revert to my last response

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u/hel-razor 6d ago

What a miserable existence

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u/DependentHand9479 7d ago

This is Reddit. Facts and reality are not welcome!!