Walmart announced deep cuts. They are firing 1500 employees.

The timing is not a coincidence. It is math.

First they execute the price hikes. They jack up prices across the board.

The burden shifts. It always shifts.

Then they announce the layoffs. They cut the overhead.

They reduce the labor cost. The math balances out.

This is the core mechanism of the thing. Raise the price and cut the person.

Keep the margin fat.

The rhetoric used is useless noise. They call it optimization and streamlining.

These are just polite words for plunder.

These are depressing features of the modern retail landscape.

Price increases are mandatory.

Staff are considered disposable inputs.

The goal is perpetual extraction.

There is no pivot. There is only the constant demand for more capital.

The system requires this friction. The scarcity of labor is intentional.

The workers absorb the cost of corporate planning.

They are the friction that keeps the machine turning.

Expect this to repeat. Expect the next wave of cuts.

Expect the next spike in the shelf price. It is the natural state of things now.