Oracle made $3.7 billion last quarter. Profit up 27 percent. Then it emailed 30,000 people at six in the morning to tell them they were done — no manager, no warning, just a note from “Oracle Leadership” while the coffee was still brewing. The company isn’t broke. It’s the opposite of broke. It cut all those people to free up eight to ten billion a year, and that money isn’t going to you or to anyone who survived the round. It’s going into concrete and graphics cards. You got laid off so a data center could get built.
That’s the whole 2026 economy in one move. Tech has cut 142,000 jobs this year, and the companies swinging the axe are the same ones posting record numbers. Meta, Amazon, Oracle — none of them are bleeding. They’re shoveling $700 billion into AI buildouts and paying for it with your salary, because payroll is the one line item an investor will applaud you for slashing. The press release calls it discipline. What it actually is: they decided the warehouse that might replace you is worth more than you, and they made you fund the down payment on your way out the door.
So when a CEO gets on a webcast and talks about doing more with less, hear what he’s saying. The less is you. The more is a building full of servers in the desert that you helped pay for with fifteen years of your life. Nobody is coming to make this fair. The only thing that has ever made a company blink is a lot of people deciding at the same time that they are done being the cheapest thing on the chopping block.