On: Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%

[eastbound]

How is that different than the IMF pumping cash in 1998 into the Russia economy, only so that private companies take the profits and create oligarchs and various lords, who then emigrated to the French Riviera with women who became widows there, empoverishing the Russian land even further, as shows by the economist Joseph Stieglitz in his book Globalization and its Discontents?

[SpicyLemonZest → eastbound]

Presumably it’s different because the point of the cash was to support people whose livelihoods were disrupted by the pandemic?

[eastbound → SpicyLemonZest]

Are you talking about the economic crisis of 1998 in Russia or about the pandemic? Both were emergencies with lives at stake.