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You are free to believe something else and go off and do whatever you want with your life. Nobody is stopping you, and more importantly, nobody is calling you a villain for believing differently.

And yet here you are, painting everyone who disagrees with you as some sort of maniacal evil-doer because what they believe is different than what you believe.

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"Help, my quest to maximize profit at the cost of human misery has people painting me as an un-empathetic, maniacal evil-doer! Why can't people understand that its actually just like, my opinion that causing societal harm for short term quarterly gains is good, is just like my opinion and every opinion is valid!"

Why does maximizing profit have to come at the cost of human misery? I would argue that maximizing profit is a direct result of reducing human misery.

I think it is maniacally evil to put peoples housing, healthcare, and ability to remain in the country at risk. It is inherently throwing 12,000 households into sudden insecurity. There better be a better reason than “whoops economic headwinds that we didn’t budget/prepare for”. Peoples access to food, housing, healthcare, and not being expelled from the country should be valued way more than this.

These are people making 3, 5, 10 times the median household income on their own. People with in-demand skills, with good resumes, and access to a remote pool of positions.

With even the slightest bit of foresight or financial planning, they'll be fine for months or longer.

I don’t really care if they’ll be fine for “months”. Months is not a lot of stability! Especially if you have dependents who need healthcare, or have a visa that requires you to find employment immediately or risk expulsion! Or just went into debt because everyone bought a new house with the low rates recently!

It shouldn’t be an individual family’s responsibility to plan for its massively growing, massively productive, massively profitable employer to treat them like a wrapper to be used and tossed in the trash when done.

It’s evil to treat being depended upon to provide a means of food, housing, healthcare, and continued residency as something that can just be shut off without warning, to no fault of the dependents.

Mindless accumulation of wealth is evil. All major world religions and ethics systems acknowledge this.

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