GAFAM Moribund
9 or 10 months into 2026 and we're already at half a trillion dollars in additional debt (this year alone).
This cannot go on.
GAFAM is circling down the drain of endless borrowings and mass layoffs sold to - and by - the media as "buyouts" (the Establishment helps this phony narrative). XBox is said to be near "end of life" (too many losses, all-time low for sales, no turnaround foreseen), Windows usage is down sharply and yesterday we saw a headline that said: "XBOX Cloud Gaming Is Going Pay-Per-Hour, and Microsoft Has Finally Revealed the Prices"
psydroid has said, in IRC, "just bleed Microsoft dry financially to make it wither away and die" (they lose a lot of money, they also borrow a lot of money).
"Will Microsoft charge for Windows per hours of use?" we said/asked in IRC. 1 cents/hour would be about $100/year.
We then saw a headline that said, "Microsoft Employees Revolt: AI Is Killing the Joy at Work!"
It's about deskilling, it's not about a lack of joy. It's about "culling" the "expensive" workers, hoping they can be replaced by cheaper operators abroad. Automation (e.g. by slop) says nothing about quality. Automation of planes, without pilots, means many crashes. It saves no money.
At the same time people like Nadella want us to think that if Microsoft's debt increased tenfold, then Microsoft's "assets" are 'worth' 10 times more (or even 30 times more). Baloney.
Microsoft's Nadella insists that people cannot/won't/don't talk about what's actually happening; don't say "slop", don't say "layoffs", don't talk about the debt (they call debt "investment").
A lot of what we say about Microsoft in respect to debt is equally applicable to the rest of GAFAM. █