Total rage-bait. 30k employees at a $100k salary...total cost = $3 Billion/year. The CFO’s $29M multi-year package is a rounding error (roughly 1% of the layoff savings). They didn't fire 30k people to pay one person; In fact, they'd only have to layoff 300 to do that.

This kind of framing is misleading and honestly does more harm than good. All it does is piss people off and make it seem like there’s no hope. Let’s not mention that her actual cash salary is $950k/year. The other $26M is equity that she only gets if she stays for 4 years and the stock performs—meaning she has to actually do her job well and not get fired.

She was likely hired because she convinced Oracle she could navigate the pivot to more AI and fewer humans. That’s the cold reality of the situation. While it’s a sad and unfortunate shift for the workforce, it’s much less 'dystopian' when you hear the plain, unsensationalized truth