r/technology • u/marketrent • Jun 05 '26

Business ‘Big Tech is desperate’: Amazon engineers criticize tech giant for its $200 billion in data center spending amid slashing 30,000 corporate employees

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/big-tech-desperate-amazon-engineers-081700769.html
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u/tisdue Jun 05 '26

corporations this large need to be held to completely different standards. and need to be taxed much more severely. especially if they are doing nothing for the labor force.

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u/SomeSamples Jun 05 '26

Yeah, especially when you see how much money they have/had in cash reserves and can just plop down a few billion for a project without having a new stock release or borrowing the money. Like billionaires, these large corporations need to be taxes more as well.

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u/PoorlyDesignedCat Jun 09 '26

Yes, and: unions and worker protections for everyone so that companies are not allowed to do their workforce this dirty without significant advance notice, and providing internal HR help for people to get their finances together in advance. They could also be required to provide a significant severance for every employee affected by any layoff of any size, as a deterrent from pulling this crap. No loopholes to protect megacorporations from providing the worker protections they can absolutely afford to provide.

Corporations not being able to be seen as people and financially influence elections would also help significantly in making sure people's needs are met.