[Moonman62]

But all these people who were making the mad money saved it all, right? They didn't waste it on foolish things, right?

I doubt that the ones who made the big bucks are the ones losing their jobs. The Marxist-style demonization of high tech entrepreneurs is going to cost our economy for many years to come.

[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

I doubt that the ones who made the big bucks are the ones losing their jobs. The Marxist-style demonization of high tech entrepreneurs is going to cost our economy for many years to come.

There is alot of truth to this. From what I have seen, coming from both the get rich quick/need no business plan greed and the absolute shortsightedness of some of the industry heavyweights, it will take a long, long time before qualified talented people will want to return to hi-tech startups again.

[danielobvt]

I was making 6 figures, and I was laid off. So were a lot of my friends. I was merely mocking the way that some people went overboard, as if the good times would never end and didn't plan accordingly. I did plan, but I do know number of people who didn't, becuase they suffered from this attitude.