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"It never trickles down": Bernie Sanders hits out at Microsoft over mass layoffs and console price rises (www.ign.com)

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He cited the fact that Microsoft made $101 billion in profits, got a $12.5 billion tax break from Trump & paid its CEO $96 million.

Corporate tax breaks don't create jobs. Real change needs to happen to balance this wealth inequality.

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[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 21 hours ago

Buddy of mine is a lead dev on Minecraft at MS. He said a dude 7 years his senior and responsible for some highly critical shit was let go. The morale is in the gutter, of course.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago

Dammit Minecraft was one of the few things MS was doing well!

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