2024 has seen two mass layoffs at Microsoft, with 1900 staff laid off in January, before a further 650 Xbox employees were shown the door in September.
Regardless, Microsoft’s shares are up and the company’s market value is now higher than $3tn, as it works to capitalise on the rise of AI.
Trickle down economics - when the 1% piss on the remainder.
Trickle down was a rebrand.
It used to be called “Horse and Sparrow economics.”
Idea being: The horses eat buckets of whole grains. And the sparrows pick their meal from the horseshit.