• Vlyn@lemmy.zip
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    10 months ago

    This isn’t about dev salaries at all. It’s about cheap investment money, you got huge amounts of funds with a very low interest rate.

    Now the interest rates are up, money lending is no longer cheap. Suddenly all those companies actually need a profit to run, which they don’t have.

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      10 months ago

      Google has literally been reporting billions of net profit every quarter.

      This is about appeasing shareholders. The capitalist class hates that tech employees have been able to command decent salaries and has been striving to push back for a while now.

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        10 months ago

        Google only made $1,586,880 per employee in 2022, how could they possibly sustain lavish salaries?

        Won’t someone think of the shareholders?