The technology world has been violently oscillated by lay-offs in recent months. Google is the latest to join the bloodbath, announcing plans to lay-off 12,000 workers. The Alphabet company aligns with Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Twitter, and others in implementing sweeping headcount reductions in reaction to intense economic austerity after years of unsustainable over-hiring, notably during the Covid-19 pandemic. A period of concentrated growth from early 2020 into 2022 – video streaming included – put technology companies in positions of faux growth, where the pull-forward effect of the pandemic gave boards a false sense of power that should never have been built on in the first place. Coronavirus was a freak incident, and the growth that came with it was freak…