ath3nd, I responded to a sibling post to this one, but it's largely the same as what I would say in response to this post. It sounds like I misinterpreted you and misunderstood your situation. I pattern matched to a situation I have seen where a person has very strident political or adjacent opinions not really because they care that much about changing public policy, but as a way of coping with a problem in their own life. Obviously, on an anonymous message board, I'm shooting in the dark trying to guess what someone's situation might be and whether my response is likely to be of any help. Sounds like it did not help you.
> "They're getting away with it because everybody is doing it. And they're getting away with it because now it's the new normal," he said. "Workers are more comfortable with it, stock investors are appreciating it, and so I think we'll see it continue for some time."
> Interest rates, sitting around 5.5%, are far from the near-zero rates of the pandemic. And some tech companies are reshuffling staff to prioritize new investments in generative AI. But experts say those factors do not sufficiently explain this month's layoff frenzy.
They are simply bumping up their stock price. They were hiring and growing like little malignant cancers when that was the signal of "success", and now they are "streamlining", which is the new signal of "success".
