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Speaker 3: Amazon start let's start here before we get to the
Speaker 3: bank situation. Amazon to layoff nine thousand more workers, which
Speaker 3: brings the total to twenty seven thousand people. How do
Speaker 3: we feel about this? What does this say about the economy?
Speaker 3: What does it say about the tech sector? What does
Speaker 3: it say?
Speaker 4: I'll just say the first thing, and it goes back
Speaker 4: to when we talked about it in December when they
Speaker 4: laid off eighteen thousand people and we saw a Meta
Speaker 4: do it and we were not eighteen thousand, but we
Speaker 4: saw them do eleven. And we saw Google, we saw
Speaker 4: a microphone Microsoft do it. There was a These are
Speaker 4: the effects of the pandemic. Right when we talk about
Speaker 4: a lot of the tech companies, how were they going
Speaker 4: to respond to the overwhelming demand on their product?
Speaker 2: Well, the response was to hire more people.
Speaker 4: When people have changed the way that they go about business,
Speaker 4: the way they go about lifestyle, the way they go
Speaker 4: about spending, there's going to be.
Speaker 2: A changing your business.
Speaker 4: And the change just happened to be, you know, especially
Speaker 4: for Amazon, that people are going back outside in their shopping.
Speaker 4: People still use Amazon, but there's an alternative to how
Speaker 4: they once were only shopping.
Speaker 2: And so this is I've looked up to statistics. This
Speaker 2: is pretty interesting.
Speaker 4: Between Q four twenty nineteen and Q three twenty twenty two,
Speaker 4: their head count increased by ninety three percent.
Speaker 2: Ninety three percent, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 4: Nearly almost one hundred percent more people worked during that
Speaker 4: time than they originally planned. So, right, even if you
Speaker 4: were creating a hiring board in twenty nineteen going to
Speaker 4: twenty twenty, you could have never imagined that this would
Speaker 4: be the increase of hires. And so what comes on
Speaker 4: the inverse of that when there needs to be cutbacks
Speaker 4: some people are going to lose their jobs is unfortunate.
Speaker 2: The count is like twenty seven thousand, So this round.
Speaker 4: Of cuts is expected to impact the cloud computing, advertising,
Speaker 4: human resources, and twitch units, so a lot of gaming, a.
Speaker 2: Lot of again cloud computing.
Speaker 4: It's unfortunate, right because these twenty seven thousand, and I
Speaker 4: know it feels like it's a number, but these are
Speaker 4: actually people, and these people have families, and these people
Speaker 4: have bills, and it's unfortunate. But this is part of
Speaker 4: the economy, right, This is what comes with gross over hiring.
Speaker 4: There are going to be layouts and cutbacks, and so
Speaker 4: again it's unfortunate. But I don't think this is the end, right,
Speaker 4: because we're still we're still trying to figure out and
Speaker 4: especially a lot of these companies in tech are trying
Speaker 4: to figure out what is the right medium.
Speaker 2: You don't want to underhire. But what comes to that.
Speaker 4: I know that you stress this a lot is that
Speaker 4: we have to figure out how we can get more
Speaker 4: with less people.
Speaker 5: And I think this is this is a prome case
Speaker 5: of it. A couple of interesting things. Like you said,
Speaker 5: this isn't going to be the last cut. Number one,
Speaker 5: so they're layering because the company can't effectively lay off
Speaker 5: fifty thousand people in one week, one quarter, one day.
Speaker 5: That's in shock waves throughout the market. Number two is
Speaker 5: the transition into a new CEO. There's some dramatic changes
Speaker 5: that have to be made. If you look the stock
Speaker 5: at one point, was that one eighty eight sixty five
Speaker 5: came down to eighty four oh two, which pretty much
Speaker 5: cut the value of the stock in half.
Speaker 2: Therefore, you have to make some adjustments. Number three. I
Speaker 2: don't like this for the workforce.
Speaker 5: I was doing some analysis earlier, and without quantitative easing
Speaker 5: in twenty eight through twenty twenty, the supply of money
Speaker 5: that came in in twenty twenty and the bailoffs that
Speaker 5: we will talk about tonight, we have effectively been in
Speaker 5: a recessive market since twenty nineteen. We're in twenty twenty
Speaker 5: three right now. So what we're saying, as we're seeing
Speaker 5: the hiring freeze, Meta's done the same thing, and they're
Speaker 5: also no longer going to be hiring five thousand more
Speaker 5: jobs that they plan to. These companies have to cut
Speaker 5: back and they're also having to find ways to be
Speaker 5: more efficient in real time. Sadly enough, cutting these jobs
Speaker 5: will allow the stock to go back up. But even
Speaker 5: when I was talking to my brother yesterday, he was saying,
Speaker 5: you know, you used to be able to find some
Speaker 5: great deals on Amazon, but because of inflation, you are
Speaker 5: not finding as many. Amazon is one of the top
Speaker 5: picks in the Red Panther stock club. It's been hovering
Speaker 5: around like ninety three to ninety seven for a while.
Speaker 5: Maybe about another eight to thirteen months it should get
Speaker 5: back to like one forty one eleven. But they need
Speaker 5: to cut to more jobs, and then on the management side,
Speaker 5: they need to do a hell of a lot better
Speaker 5: job of being more efficient and getting their cost spaces
Speaker 5: up in terms of net income in that revenue.
Speaker 2: So this is sad because.
Speaker 5: This is not going to be the last of it,
Speaker 5: and this is why they're pushing AI at every angle
Speaker 5: that they can GBT four was released. Microsoft not has
Speaker 5: their version, but we're just seeing we're probably only like
Speaker 5: in the middle of these job cuts for tech overall.
Speaker 3: So what does this say about Amazon as far as
Speaker 3: investing in the company, as far as their stock is concerned.
Speaker 3: You know, as Amazon has been a company that you know,
Speaker 3: we've talked about a lot as far as you know,
Speaker 3: a good investment long term, is it still Is it
Speaker 3: still a good investment?
Speaker 2: Absolutely?
Speaker 5: I seventy five and below, but anything above that right
Speaker 5: now is And also it goes to back to Besis leadership.
Speaker 5: We cannot say with Lebron, like we're kind of taking
Speaker 5: Lebron for granted, even though like he's in his last
Speaker 5: two to three years. We took Besis for granted for
Speaker 5: a long time and he's a great executive, but Bezos
Speaker 5: was a superstar, rock star level CEO that over delivered.
Speaker 5: He may need to come back to that seat for
Speaker 5: a couple of years to write to ship.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think you said it and most people
Speaker 4: will like maybe be confused by it, but yeah, these
Speaker 4: layouts will probably mean that the doctor is going to
Speaker 4: go up. And we had this conversation last week when
Speaker 4: we were talking about salesforce when it was like, all right,
Speaker 4: we need to really figure out where our spending is
Speaker 4: and how we're going to cut spending. And one of
Speaker 4: those things that they do is lay off employees. And
Speaker 4: so when they lay off employees and now they have
Speaker 4: more money to make business more efficient, it's it's a
Speaker 4: sad effect, but it's a real effect.
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Speaker 4: you want to make more money?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you say you like you like it under
Speaker 3: seventy five dollars correct correct? All right, Well, I think
Speaker 3: it all also speaks to just making work more efficient,
Speaker 3: and this can lead to a conversation. I don't know
Speaker 3: if you guys seen it, but they've been pushing more
Speaker 3: and more about this four day work week situation. More
Speaker 3: and more companies are pushing towards that. And I had
Speaker 3: a conversation to my barber. Shout out to Bubbs. I
Speaker 3: was in the shop today and we was listening they
Speaker 3: were talking about it on the radio. By the way,
Speaker 3: appreciate that very important, very important. So this is my philosophy, right,
Speaker 3: because he was asking me, like, do I think the
Speaker 3: four day work week is a good idea? And I'm like,
Speaker 3: I guess technically, but in our line of work, for instance,
Speaker 3: it's an everyday work week, but it's done not traditionally.
Speaker 3: So like the person that does our YouTube, right, his
Speaker 3: name is Rich, shout out to him. I get up
Speaker 3: in the morning and I'll give him like tasks for
Speaker 3: the day. I try to do it before ten o'clock
Speaker 3: and and he just has to do it at some
Speaker 3: point in time, so he could potentially do it before
Speaker 3: one o'clock, before twelve o'clock, anything, right, and then you're
Speaker 3: done for today. But we need to post content every
Speaker 3: single day, so that to me, that type of hybrid
Speaker 3: approach is what we're going into right going into the
Speaker 3: office and clocking it at nine o'clock and wasting time
Speaker 3: and leaving at five point thirty. Like those days are over.
Speaker 3: I feel like you have tasks that you have to
Speaker 3: have to be completed. You can complete those tasks from anywhere.
Speaker 3: You can do a zoom call if you need to
Speaker 3: have a conference, or you can just call somebody if
Speaker 3: you need to talk to somebody and don't need to
Speaker 3: physically be there. So that cuts overhead as far as
Speaker 3: and this goes back to the commercial real estate play.
Speaker 3: That cuts overhead as far as office is concerned, but
Speaker 3: it also cuts the amount of people that you need
Speaker 3: as well, because you realize you don't really need that
Speaker 3: many people. A lot of people are getting paid to
Speaker 3: do nothing. So trim the fat extremely important. And not
Speaker 3: to call people fat because we are sensitive that people
Speaker 3: are getting laid off. Nobody wants to see anybody lose
Speaker 3: their job. But I'm just saying as far as moving forward,
Speaker 3: I feel like more and more companies will look to
Speaker 3: see how you can get more efficiency from your employees.
Speaker 3: And in my opinion, that's from the employees staying at
Speaker 3: home having tasks that they have to be completed. It
Speaker 3: doesn't matter when you can do the task at one
Speaker 3: o'clock in the morning if you want, just do the task.
Speaker 3: And that's the new working model in my opinion.
Speaker 5: And I'll chime in really quickly and tell a very
Speaker 5: soft truth that most people need to hear the four
Speaker 5: hour work week proposition that's being done and efficiency is
Speaker 5: going to be slung around so they don't have to
Speaker 5: give us full time benefits because they're not going to
Speaker 5: have most people work. If you are at eight hours
Speaker 5: a day, Hello Michael, and you're working for this, you're
Speaker 5: going to be at thirty two hours, they don't have
Speaker 5: to then give you full time. And I'm seeing this
Speaker 5: happen with some people right now, like they'll put you
Speaker 5: right up to like thirty eight and a half thirty
Speaker 5: nine hours to avoid forty hours.
Speaker 2: Plus and giving you four benefits.
Speaker 5: So please be careful as they are pushing this initiative
Speaker 5: of a four day week work week, that you don't
Speaker 5: get caught in that trap of them trying to lower
Speaker 5: your benefits or your pay and then subconsciously or subtly
Speaker 5: in corporate forcing you to do more while giving you less.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you see in France that well you should
Speaker 3: do you should get Well, well, what did you say,
Speaker 3: you said, I'm about anyway, nodada, you said, I'm just
Speaker 3: showing that.
Speaker 2: I just want to declare what you said.
Speaker 3: You said, be careful that they don't give you lessen
Speaker 3: doing less for doing less.
Speaker 2: You should get less. You should get less for doing less.
Speaker 5: But what they're going to do because and the truth
Speaker 5: is like they've ruined our economy. And then like notice,
Speaker 5: whenever the banks collapse, which is a sign of a recession,
Speaker 5: they have to bail our banks because mask consolidation is
Speaker 5: an easy way to form a quiet monopoly. They always
Speaker 5: end up blaming the people for destroying the economy.
Speaker 2: It wasn't the workforce that caused.
Speaker 5: The collapse of SVB or FTX or bitcoin imploding from
Speaker 5: sixty down to twenty thousand, but we'll talk about bitcoin later.
Speaker 5: It wasn't the consumers that did that. It was the
Speaker 5: organizations and leadership that did that. But then, and always watch,
Speaker 5: even in the SVB thing, they're going to start to
Speaker 5: put some of this on black entrepreneurs and say that
Speaker 5: they were giving risky loans and they didn't meet a
Speaker 5: certain risk profile, which reminds me a lot of to
Speaker 5: And for those of you who don't know, when the housing
Speaker 5: market collapsed, it wasn't because blacks.
Speaker 2: And Latin's got two and three houses.
Speaker 5: That wasn't it. We didn't have any credit to false
Speaker 5: swaps options on these investments.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: It was hard enough for us to open up a
Speaker 5: brokerage in two thousand and eight. But you want to
Speaker 5: make me think that we imploded a global market. But
Speaker 5: when they were putting exotic triangs together and selling them
Speaker 5: off in Germany and Ukraine and Russia and traded them
Speaker 5: lack option derivatives, the consumer always get blamed and we
Speaker 5: always always get blamed, us on the black consumer side.
Speaker 5: So yes, we want to make things more efficient, but
Speaker 5: I also don't want us to take the blame for
Speaker 5: this market falling apart when we did not cause that crash.
Speaker 2: That's important. That's a fact.
Speaker 3: My graduates from my school being forced back drop drop
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