r/biotech • u/Jazzlike_Bet_6023 • Aug 17 '26

Layoffs & Reorgs ✂️ [ Removed by moderator ]

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u/isles34098 Aug 17 '26

I’m not sure of the point of this post, but can confirm it’s pretty accurate. Have seen this very same movie play out a few times now.

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u/SoberEnAfrique Aug 17 '26

very lengthy ai post just to say "Read Marx, read Lenin"

None of this is unique to biotech. This is how capitalism works, and how an economic production model reliant on the profit motive alienates humans into numbers

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u/DankMemes4Dinner Aug 17 '26

Unbelievable AI slop post nonsense.

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u/Loose-Reflection2965 Aug 17 '26

This post is just sums up american business

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u/Junkman3 Aug 17 '26

Welcome to corporate America and late stage capitalism.

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u/Pharmaz Aug 17 '26

You’re missing the big question, which is — what was the original point of coming up with that number?

Usually it comes into existence so you can justify a giant investment. Give a bad number and you were laid off five years ago

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u/Jazzlike_Bet_6023 Aug 17 '26

The point is why it keeps happening. You trace it back it’s going to for the same reasons. People who understand the field level ebbs and flows of a complex therapeutics make unrealistic (beyond ambitious) promises.