Microsoft and the Art of Sleight of Hand Distraction Amid Mass Layoffs
THE "news" editors at Microsoft (not a bot, not "Hey Hi" (AI) as the media was spinning it for Microsoft back in 2020 upon firing many editors) have chosen a Russian-owned site to relay some gossip about "laid-off masses" at Farcebook (Facebook) and Salesfarce. But wait, aren't the very major layoffs actually happening at Microsoft right now, rather than Farcebook and Salesfarce?
Microsoft MSN's leading stories right now include: "The laid-off masses have a message for Mark Zuckerberg..."
Here we go, this is "the breaking story" (not):
Oh, what a way to distract from MASS LAYOFFS at Microsoft. It last happened LAST WEEK. They keep bailing out on their own offices and office space was again abandoned last week. Shouldn't Microsoft's "news" editors focus more on THAT?
No, that might piss off "the man" (who pays their salary and already fired a lot of them, falsely claiming that "Hey Hi" pixie dust can feasibly replace them in that role; that leads to scandalous 'articles' that attract mockery and firm condemnation).
So Microsoft had loads of layoffs last week, unlike Facebook. But Microsoft wants to change the subject, using some article from a Russian-owned site.
As a side note, having just checked the state of GitLab I also see that... well, it almost seems like the majority or about half of Microsoft's claimed "income" is just the bailout from Bailout Biden and if taking the accounting fraud into account rather than setting that aside, maybe it's the majority of the income! Nothing will please US taxpayers more than paying half a trillion dollars per month to save companies such as Microsoft. What wonderful use of money borrowed to deflate the currency.
The US economy is in a really terrible shape. Many companies that claim to be huge, hugely valuable and "doing well" are in fact barely managing to keep up with debt (now with very high interest rates). Spotify is still failing to pay back its massive debt, now at about 2,000 million dollars, and the same is true for ClownFlare with about 1,500 million dollars in debt. See, ClownFlare is a smashing "success" story; from 17 million in net losses in 2016 it grew to about 200 million in losses last year. Can Bailout Biden also bail out ClownFlare with some ridiculous and totally unnecessary "defence" contract/s? Can that be tucked into $110,000,000,000 in additional budget for Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel? To be clear, Donald Trump did the same. We're not playing "wings" here.
ClownFlare is not recovering. Its still not profiting. The company's debt is almost as high as all the assets combined (the latter is usually faked by the company itself, with or without help from salaried accountants or Wall Street speculators who can rig valuations to defraud investors). █