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		harryh on April 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Patreon lays off 13% of workforce It's a good thing that millions of people have lost their jobs at what were otherwise well functioning businesses because of a global pandemic that also, by the way, is going to end up killing hundreds of thousands of people? Uh huh.

ravenstine on April 22, 2020 [–]

Patreon has millions of employees? Oh, your sarcasm is referring to the pandemic as a whole. Which I wasn't.

Kiro on April 22, 2020 | [–]

So how is it a good thing? What are you referring to?

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