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AI bet goes awry: Oracle fires 21,000 employees
www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/tech-and-start-ups/article-903442
The Jerusalem Post | JPost.comAI bet goes awry: Oracle fires 21,000 employees | The Jerusalem PostOracle laid off ~13% of its staff to fund a $300B computing deal with OpenAI. Now, a credit downgrade and $7B in required power grid guarantees put the massive project in jeopardy.
Replying to @sanitation@lemmy.today
Couldn’t happen to a better group of companies. Let them all beg for bailouts and be denied.
Replying to @comador@lemmy.world
While I agree with the anti Oracle sentiment, that’s 21,000 employees that didn’t say they wanted AI BS. The suits and ceos that do this aren’t the ones that pay the price. It’s always the ordinary people like you and I.
I don’t think employees can really be separated from the company mission. They might not be the ones who benefit the most, but they still receive some benefit in exchange for producing the outcome.
People resign from roles on ideological grounds all the time.
Replying to @fizzle@quokk.au
I 100% agree if we’re talking about employees with the capacity to earn more than a living wage.
You can’t tie people to the actions of the company they’re working for if they’re living paycheck to paycheck.
Employees in the tech sector can absolutely afford to not work at Oracle or Flock or any one of the other antihuman shitholes like them. For a lot of these people all it took for them to sell their morality was a chance to make six figures.