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Intel is laying off over 15,000 employees and will stop ‘non-essential work’
(www.theverge.com)
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Yes, I agree, and I think it's a reflection of society's values over the past 50 years.
We are living in a world with more of a "make money and fuck all else" mindset. Children of wealthy elites are living very privileged childhoods, and as a result, have less empathy and more contempt for real people. We are now seeing the effects of living in a society where the needle of social values is pointed 100% on the side of capitalism and 0% on the side of moral values. And how that has affected our perspectives of a society at large: a general lack of caring, a lack of empathy, a lack of conscientiousness from the top, tossing normal, real people aside like rubbish in a bin.
We're seeing what happens when you let a generation of incredibly entitled children grow up to take the reins of society. We all know how it ends....
(And for what it's worth, I think a long, extended Great Depression-style event is much more likely than a violent conflict, especially given how docile citizens of the west have proven themselves to be over the past several decades.)