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Google lays off hundreds of 'Core' employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico (www.cnbc.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Google is laying off more employees and hiring for their roles outside of the U.S.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Maybe something is getting lost in translation, but none of the things you mentioned seem to have anything to do with the point I'm making... so your ending claim that "money doesn't always align with power" doesn't seem related to anything I said or the scenario you posed...?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

"Wealth and power are exactly the same". This is the claim I'm disputing. If there are places where money and power are in conflict, then they can't be the same. Your analysis of a situation will be have holes in it if this is not considered.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

If you’d care to dive deeper I’d like to be challenged on this; but your previous example of “maintaining things can avoid unnecessary costs later” (as I understand it) doesn’t have anything to do with “money and power can be in conflict”.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Shortsightedness driven by greed does not, in any way, negate money equaling power.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Then let me attack it from a different direction: can you have power in a society that does not have money?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Within that isolated society? Sure.

If your goal was to argue semantics then I don't know why I'm entertaining this. Yes, in an imaginary society that is 1) somehow not influenced by modern society and 2) somehow also avoids currency - power dynamics will obviously take different shapes.

Do you realize how meaningless that example is?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I'm working outword to find a path in.

If a society can have power without money, then can the two overlap perfectly in any society?

To use a more concrete example, how do unions ever have power in our society? They tend not to have money, or at least very little in proportion to the business owners.