Your money and privilege can be taken from you at any moment.
This is not about economy or things slowing down. It is about showing the tech workers they are just cogs in the machine, the laborers that should focus on work and not talk back to their employers.
Google: actually in light of recent macroeconomic conditions, don't do that
Googlers: bruh!!! You are treating us like COGS in a MACHINE!
Yeah. If you expect that much excellence, committment, prioritizing the company over their freakin family from who you hire, you are responsible with treating them the way you promised them at the start.
Is that remark missing some context?
Employers have posted record profits while making savage cuts. They've availed of massive subsidies without any oversight. The wealthiest have hoovered up damn near all of the productivity gains of the last 50 years, and are still doing it.
This while rent has skyrocketed and the cost of living has inflated hugely. We're now at the point where many fully employed people across the neoliberal world are homeless, and many others are barely surviving, while their employers are buying new luxury cars and yachts.
It's perverse, and you might want to be careful saying that laborers have it easy out there in the real world because there's quite a bit of resentment about it all.
Until you people start having the courage to name capitalism instead of using escape words like 'neoliberal', things will keep worsening the same.
They can just quit and find even better employment elsewhere. With more stock options, more autonomy and perks.