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[–] r00ty@kbin.life 10 points 19 hours ago

It's what I've said for a while. Businesses and business owners have always been greedy and would always sell their own mother for $1 more profit. What's different now, is that there is zero downside to cutting headcount, cutting costs, and enshittifying a product. All of which achieve the outcome of more money at the top.

So, this is why many of us in the private sector have seen real world pay cuts for years now, all these top companies are shedding thousands of their headcount year on year, and we're constantly paying more, for less, with way worse terms of use.

That the government of the most powerful country in the world is also aligned with the people responsible for this is just icing on their cake. They were already at it for some time before.