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- economics@lemmy.world
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- economics@lemmy.world
Why widespread tech layoffs keep happening despite a strong U.S. economy::The number of tech sector layoffs in 2024 has been outpacing the number of terminations in 2023.
Why widespread tech layoffs keep happening despite a strong U.S. economy::The number of tech sector layoffs in 2024 has been outpacing the number of terminations in 2023.
Okay, this is outside looking in, but economic indicators seem to be all good. However, the spreading of the gains is what’s totally wrong. It all flows the a small section of the population. Tax cuts for the rich and the like didn’t help with that, and the richest people in the country are pushing for an even larger share of the gains.
The economic indicators are not indicators that work for the populace at large. We need better indicators.
Just look at china’s economic growth. They have built entire ghost cities and values all they built at market prices, as if they where in hot demand. And this skyrocketed the economy. It was a massive ponzi scheme., but the numbers looked great.
In western Europe, housing is scares, skyrocketing the house prices, this adds to the value of the housing pool, in turn to the total value of the economy… and we call if growth and increase in wealth. But no one who owns their house will be able to cash in that value increase until they die. Stupid indicator if you ask me.
The indicators are correct. People are working very hard and money is flowing around. In this case it doesn’t matter if that’s sustainable growth are not, people are still working hard even if it is to build ghost cities.
But that other indicator like the Gini index is also correct. There is a lot of money earned but it doesn’t go to the labor class. And that’s where usually unions come in. In my country unions were started to negotiate because the labor class started to torch the mansions and factories of the owner class, sometimes with said owners still inside. Negotiations and some strikes were preferred above the torch and pitchfork style of handling things.
That’s history of course, and especially in USA the owner class if very good at dividing and gaslighting the labor class to keep this from happening, so members of the labor class start pointing at ghost cities in China instead off what’s happening and who’s pulling their strings.