• pachrist@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    It’s sad how much this will hurt good people who work for the Washington Post and how little this will affect Bezos.

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      2 months ago

      If you still work at the Post after all this time it’s kind of on you. They’ve had years to find employment at outlets that aren’t a direct mouthpiece for Bezos.

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        2 months ago

        I’m not sure it’s that simple. The job market isn’t great right now, you’re on a programming instance so I would think you would know that the job market is rough even for programmers right now.

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            2 months ago

            Well in the past 4 years we’ve had an unheard of in the modern age pandemic followed by way too many mass layoffs, so that’s nearly half a decade where it wasn’t so feasible to switch jobs.

            Although yeah it’s true, they could have left in the 6 years prior, but I’m also not sure how many opportunities they had elsewhere in general, especially without having to uproot their lives and relocate elsewhere.

            I do find it hard to demonize the workers when the focus should be on those at the top.

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        2 months ago

        Can’t imagine many news publications are offering competitive job offers.

        Job hunting isn’t that great at the moment

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          Well, it’s the price of not being dependent on billionaires.

          On the other hand, if the hundreds of thousands of subscribers go to a some publication (I’ve seen propublica recommended earlier in the comments, for instance) they will be able to pay a decent salary to a bunch of those journalists.