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jvanderbot | on: Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
60k workers is only ~18 billion. Maybe 36 billion. Maybe even 72.

That's small potatoes vs their new excess capex spend of 100sB/y.

drillsteps5 | parent
Maybe making the business look more lean/efficient to prep for upcoming bond/debt/whatever mechanism they'll use to get those 100sB/y...