Well, what do you suggest would help? You haven't really addressed if these people are right or wrong, just that they're all angry, and it's somehow not okay for a lot of people to be angry at the same time and talk about it to each other?

Agreed. There's been a lot of this lately on HN, and it's starting to feel like Reddit's /r/politics or /r/antiwork.

Agreed; there's no substance to this, and bringing up how common overhiring and layoffs have been points to these CEOs being average performers, not bottom 6%. The more interesting story would have been where are the CEOs who saw this coming, but even that's just hindsight bias.

>> The endless drivel of "it's the managers at fault!"

Who else if not managers are at fault here.

The only reason they are paid extra is because they are responsible for mistakes.

Amazing! Colosseum crowd spurred on, undeterred, by Maximus asking "Are you not entertained?"!

Layoffs hurt. But at the end of the day, save for a little empathy, no one really cares.

While I agree with the premise, what is your point? Just accept the outrageous inequality of tech capitalism so that the chosen ones (programmers, tech people) can keep on making six and seven figures at the expense of everyone else?