USA is lawless and corruption is rampant, yet no one can stop it because individual consequences are too high.

> ejected a complete idiot

Don't give us hope.

I miss being able to talk about business more, too, but a lot of people who grew up in the Obama-era tech boom seemed to have a blind spot about how much this macro stuff affects everything we do.

The big money is both piling into a small number of tech companies _and_ demanding layoffs to a degree we didn’t see in past recessions, but unlike in the Bush recession we aren’t going to see consumer demand floating startups, government hiring is dead, non-tech companies are cutting back, and unlike with the web the AI push isn’t going to work the same at the big non-tech organizations as it did two decades ago when there were tons of jobs helping them move online: if AI does have a solid benefit for those companies, it comes in the form of a license more than jobs. You can see that in two ways: all of the people talking about how hard it is to find work, and the flood of App Store submissions but not revenue as a bunch of laid-off tech workers try to find anything which won’t be lost in the noise.

But it’s relevant whether we like it or not. This will affect the price of goods, salaries of workers, everything.

> We love it too" - MAGA

HN as well apparently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479101