Amazon laid off about 14,000 employees in October 2025. Then they laid off about another 16,000 employees a few days ago \u2013 on January 28, 2026.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s a total of about 30,000 people who no longer have a job. Or health benefits, or maybe a future, given the current state of the U.S. economy.<\/p>\n
But it wasn\u2019t a total waste. With all of the money they saved, Amazon was able to spend the $75,000,000 needed to buy the rights and promote a documentary about a Slovenian woman.<\/p>\n
So that film cost Amazon only $2500 for each person who is now out of work. A real bargain, when you think about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Amazon laid off about 14,000 employees in October 2025. Then they laid off about another 16,000 employees a few days ago \u2013 on January 28, 2026. That\u2019s a total of about 30,000 people who no longer have a job. Or health benefits, or maybe a future, given the current state of the U.S. economy. But … Continue reading “$2500”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28182"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28183,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28182\/revisions\/28183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}