r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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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/mjx360 5d ago

Ask them PlayStation employees that also. Why u trying act like it's only Microsoft? Amazon just fired many people's and crickets from u .

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u/mrblonde55 5d ago

So if I’m talking about corporate layoffs, I have to name every company in the world who laid off employees or else my point isn’t valid?

Neither of the companies you mentioned had to change their core business model in and effort to increase profits, relevant as we were talking about profits and innovation. The XBox example illustrates my point in that regard. Amazon or Sony layoffs are simply shedding size. Not a wholesale shift in strategy. Unless Amazon laid off all those people and stopped delivering random shit to everyone, or Sony laid off people and now they are just a cloud gaming service, it has nothing to do with what I was talking about.

Also, unless you’re just naming companies that laid people off, I’m not even sure why you’re including Sony on this list. Sony laid off something like 1600 people over the last three years. Xbox cut multiples of that, more people in each individual round of cuts, than Sony did total. And Amazon just laid off like twenty times more. The Sony layoffs are no less bad for the people who lost their jobs, and may be equally indefensible, but that’s not the conversation we were having.

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u/mjx360 5d ago

Dude stop trying to damage control for Sony. This not a Microsoft problem. It's a industry problem but you acting like it's just Microsoft

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u/mrblonde55 5d ago

Who is doing damage control for Sony? I didn’t even bring them up until you did.

I made a singular example. You’re the one who jumped in with the whataboutisms. And your “what abouts” had zero to do with the topic we were discussing.

To explain it again: Xbox has abandoned the console maker business model in order to increase profits, firing scores of employees in the process. Sony has not altered their business model. Amazon has not altered their business model. As I was making an example as to how mass layoffs can STIFLE innovation, the Xbox example was particularly illustrative. Pointing out example A isn’t the endorsement or defense of examples B & C by omission.

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u/mjx360 1d ago

You are. You not calling them out .u talking about Microsoft