It’s incredible to me the number of posts about how surprised people are at tech layoffs even though they’ve been part of the culture for decades. In my estimation the exact wrong conclusions are being drawn here, and that it’s driven by a snide and vengeful fantasy of the less technical that somehow finally we are going to see a leveling of the outrageous salaries of programmers.

Companies are going to fail as the Biden economy and the terrible fiscal policy decisions surface.

In gaming the market is saturated not financially with gamers pocketbooks but by gamers *time*. A much more difficult form of saturation.

What we are seeing is the contraction, what we will see is a massive swell of demand for the extremely technical. The layoffs right now are emergency brakes and affects programmer job security, but the real pain is coming when the non-technical executives find out they offer so little value as to be unemployable without learning new skills.

Programmers and those technical enough to survive as programmers that possess deep domain knowledge in their industries will soon be the only people that offer much value to most modern companies. The companies that survive the globalist induced cliff that is.