Microsoft to lay off about 9,000 employees in latest round [Seattle Times] (www.seattletimes.com)

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[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago

Just absolutely disgusting. Stock reaches an all time high on Tuesday ofc. Jeez it sure is great we started consolidating the industry under one umbrella! But it was worth it for ThE bEsT dEaL iN gAmInG. Got muh cod on game pass so yayyyyyy.

Capitalism needs to end yesterday. We're so cooked

[-] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Waiting for the inevitable opinion turn with Game Pass costing more year over year eventually. Not sure if what's left of Xbox brand survives that fall out.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

At the least, we need to get back to REGULATED capitalism. The fact that the Activision deal was allowed to go through is preposterous. Just like everything in our society involving corporations and absurd amounts of money. What's the point of obliterating regulations if the corporations help nobody except their wealthy shareholders?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

We have come so far that we have gone from "maybe the world should be a better place" to "if we are really going to do this capitalism shit, could we at least follow the fundamental foundational concepts instead of a corporate free-for-all where the rules of the game have been tossed out?"

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

This is how I think about socialism when arguing for it in a modern context. Capitalism is a game where we compete and there are winners and losers. Okay, I mean Americans love competition and games, so that's all well and good. But games have RULES, and if we are playing football and someone gets hurt, we don't just dump them in the trash and keep playing. We pause or stop the game, we make sure they are doing okay, we get them to medical care if they need it. Then and only then do we resume playing the game. This is what socialism is in my mind - we still have a free market and use competition to breed innovation, but we also make sure everyone is doing okay before we continue the game. As is, it seems like our fearless leaders think that if you lose at the game, you deserve to die.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Right, socialism doesn't necessarily say that markets themselves are evil, but rather that the workers should have direct control over their own workplaces and reap the value of their labor instead of being siphoned off to a parasite class. A socialist business owned by the workers would still be selling their goods in the marketplace. It's just a fairer distribution of control of the company through democracy and a fairer distribution of the value generated by the labor.

As I often say, it's not like Jeff Bezos can deliver every Amazon package or manage every AWS server on his own. No, the value he has is leeched from all the workers who make his business function. Without the workers, he is effectively useless on his own.

But it feels like we're regressing and we can't even get to that socialist ideal because we're busy fighting for the basic rules of capitalism that produce an actually healthy economy where everyone is involved be followed.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Yeah I think that is likely a necessary next step

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Like, they’re shooting them selves in the foot right now, this demand they’re trying to cut costs to keep up with, was artificially created by them!

Open AI is the largest single source of the demand, and they’re just redeeming credit Microsoft gave them in exchange for letting Microsoft use their models. Much of the rest of the demand is from users messing around with, or accidentally activating, the models from OpenAI that Microsoft has hastily welded on to anything they could. Microsoft could argue that’s bringing in money, but really Microsoft just raised the price of the office suite and didn’t make it clear that people could have kept the old price by switching to a new tier that didn’t have the features. Like, they could have just raised the price without the new features and pocketed the money without inducing demand or giving OpenAI free compute.

And now to pay for that unforced error, they’re going to let their games side fall even further behind. Like, it’s not happening yet, but, I think we’re quickly going to reach a point where Xbox has gone the way of the Dreamcast, and windows is no longer the default for PC games because it’s such a bloated mess.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I feel like Microsoft has been extremely dodgy when it comes to the future of the Xbox. I bet they'll just hire more people to fill the gap. It always seems to be "look we're trimming the fat!" And then "look we're expanding". Anything to boost the stock

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

The end of Xbox consoles

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

It's been a slow, 15 year suffocation.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Maybe I was stupid to believe that they'll slow down the Xbox console to go extremely hard on Xbox/PC Game Pass and push to be the Netflix of PC games.

But these are software layoffs.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

You need software to sell hardware...

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