The lawsuit is one of about a dozen X is facing stemming from Musk's decision to lay off about half of Twitter's workforce beginning last November.

US Judge Refuses to Dismiss Lawsuit Accusing X of Age Bias in 2022 Layoffs::A US federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit accusing X, the social media service formerly called Twitter, of disproportionately laying off older workers when Elon Musk acquired the company last year.

      • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        10 months ago

        We just live in a culture that constantly tries to convince us that people’s worth and dignity is tied to their bank accounts. If someone is a billionaire “they must the smartest and hardest working”, if someone is homeless “they are lazy and don’t even deserve to live”.

        I believe this is changing because now even average people can speak openly to the whole world and see what many others contribute, rather than only consuming what big media companies owned by wealthy executives push through mass media.

        • Foggyfroggy@lemmy.world
          English
          2·
          10 months ago

          When you start to look at power structures all sorts of dark stuff falls out. This “culture of expectations for billionaires and the lazies” serves a particular group and it didn’t just happen to develop that way.

          We have record profits but just not enough for raises. Now get back in the office and quit complaining about the not inflation definitely not happening everywhere anymore.

        • Mojojojo1993@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          Not a comparison. Just those with money have the luxury of saying they don’t want money. Yet if you ever asked an actual person without money they would be very happy to have that luxury.

          You have a roof over your head food in your belly. You don’t have the risk of freezing to death and you probably can read and write. These are luxuries for most of human history and a lot of the world population.

          You are a dev. One of the luckiest humans in the world. Most would give their left nut to work 20 hours a week and survive.

          It’s not a comment on you just perspective

          • ZootEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            I dont know about that, I’ve been broke, living on the streets before in my life, with no food. Life sucked, yet ar the same time; I still hate money. Like he said, sure having a safety net would be awesome, but beyond that just being able to explore and enjoy life is really all that kept me going. I guess maybe it’s just a simple life kind of outlook?

    • EvilBit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      If you offered me hundreds of billions of dollars, whatever Mollusk is worth these days, or any obscene amount of money, I wouldn’t take it if I had to wake up every morning and look in the mirror to see a quivering sack of worthless, toxic shit like him starting back at me.

      That said, I would actually probably take it and immediately stop being a sleazy, classless, vile heap of rotting offal like he is, and start a foundation that could single-handedly make the world a profoundly better place. But that’s because I’m not a fucking psychopathic bigoted asshole polyp.

        • EvilBit@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          This is indeed true, but I suspect that most people who achieve that kind of wealth started out as psychopaths. Maybe you were a decent person until you had enough money to exploit the socioeconomic order, but odds are you got that much money because you’re not a decent person.

            • EvilBit@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              10 months ago

              I think what you may be overlooking or undervaluing is the fact that once you have all the money, there’s only one thing left to do: try and whitewash your legacy. You can’t take it with you, but you can get a hospital wing named after you, even if you put a significant proportion of its patients there.

              It’s like prestiging in real life. It’s disgusting but it tracks.