🚨 Do you get what Oracle just did?

They didn’t “restructure.”
They didn’t “right-size.”
They fired 30,000 people.

Not after a bad quarter.
Not because they were on the brink of collapse.
They fired 30,000 people by 6 AM email… while reporting a 95% increase in net income** last quarter.

Oracle isn’t some struggling dinosaur limping into the AI age.
Oracle is making more money than ever

And instead of saying, “Hey, the people who built this deserve security, mobility, upside,” they basically said:

“Thanks for the record profits.
We’re taking your jobs and turning them into concrete and GPUs.”

156 billion to build the infrastructure that makes a lot of those same people obsolete.

Meanwhile, Larry Ellison the man behind the curtain is sitting on a net worth of 200 billion dollars.
He’s the third richest person on earth

He literally owns almost an entire Hawaiian island Lanai about 98 percent of it.
He bought it for around 300 million dollars like someone picking up a second home they might visit twice a year.

That’s the backdrop:
One guy with an island, and 30,000 families waking up to “Your access has been revoked.”

This isn’t some isolated villain arc.

This is the playbook.

IBM cut 7,800 jobs and openly talked about replacing them with AI in 2023.
Amazon slashed 27,000 roles the same year while bragging about record revenue.
Atlassian cut thousands while profits went up and investors clapped.
Google laid off 12,000 people while sitting on over 100 billion dollars in cash

You were told:
“Learn to code.”
So you did.

You were told:
“Upskill. Future-proof yourself.”
So you did that too.

You went to the bootcamps.
You learned the frameworks.
You watched the AI webinars.
You helped build the very tools they’re now using to justify your removal.

And then one morning, before your alarm even went off, a cold, automated email decided your family’s health insurance and rent situation for you.

No conversation.
No loyalty.
No, “Hey, you helped us get here. Let’s figure out a path together.”

Just:
“We had record profits. We’re pivoting to AI. You’re out.”

That’s the part people need to sit with:

These weren’t layoffs made to save a sinking ship.
These were layoffs made because the ship is too profitable

Because once a company finds a more efficient way to make money, the people who built the old way become a “cost center,” not a constituency.

The message being sent is brutally clear:

“You are not a partner in this success.
You are not a stakeholder.
You are an expense.
And when the line goes up without you, you go.”