Comment on Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees

• maynarkh@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is mostly about manufacturing, and the global economy. I know most of the US economy is about services, but services depend on goods, and goods depend on manufacturing. How do you sell more apps if people buy fewer phones?

  To be fair, all of this is anecdotal. It’s just that I see continuous layoffs in service as well, like the article says. I’m hearing manufacturing is similarly depressive. There are and have been huge problems with trade and supply chains, it was the pandemic before, now it’s the Yemen thing.

  I guess I’m just saying the world economy is not doing well right now. I hope it will get better soon. Also, it’s not just the Western world’s economy. China is trying to stave off a real estate collapse. Russia is in a war that basically eliminated it as a world power. A lot of South America and Africa is in turmoil. Europe is trying to solve multiple refugee crises simultaneously, while also trying to not go full fascist.

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  • KevonLooney@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How do you sell more apps if people buy fewer phones?

    Maybe you don’t know this but you can install multiple apps on one phone. And there are a ton of services built into those apps. They don’t all build their own payment processor, or security packages, or a ton of other backend things you never see. You just don’t see all the b2b services that you use every day.

    Then there’s all the physical services. People always need haircuts and plumbers. Look at the actual numbers and you’ll see that layoffs are quite low now:

    www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.t05.htm

    Honestly, your thinking appears to be influenced by your personal feelings and not the actual facts. There’s always problems in the world. Today’s problems seem bigger but that’s just recency bias. In the 90s there was literal war and genocide in Europe and around the world. The economy was fine.

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