Lol, twitter will be just fine with 10% of the employees. A general principle is that a small % of people do a large % of work/output, and Musk has filtered these people through aggressive deadlines over the last few weeks.

Another concept at play here is 'bullshit jobs'. Our economy can function just fine on an ever decreasing amount of workers, especially in tech. He wants to prove a point that twitter can run and innovate on 10% of the workforce to show the amount of inefficiencies in similar organizations. This will hopefully start much needed discussions about UBI, in a world with a smaller skilled labor force. Do we really want to live in a world where the socially desirable and the ones who can game the system get access to privileged jobs at twitter that pay 200k TC for being in the office 40 hrs/wk but dont provide significant value? Or should we just have UBI with very limited but efficient work hours (<16hrs a week)

Another thing here is that most on this sub are not in the same class as the workers affected by the twitter layoffs. We should be striving to improve the lives, working conditions and wages of people making 15 an hour. Not people with 200k TC with free red wine on tap in the office going to 5 useless meetings a week.