We now know the price of a human being at Oracle. It is not measured in years of service, institutional knowledge, or loyalty. It is measured in teraflops and gigawatts.
Last week’s brutal, gut-wrenching layoffs—where decades-long veterans were lured into termination calls and discarded like obsolete hardware—were not merely a corporate “restructuring.” They were a premeditated blood sacrifice on the altar of an alien god named Project Stargate. As we learned this morning, Oracle has signed a staggering $300 billion cloud deal with OpenAI to build the most powerful AI data centers in history. The human cost of that deal was calculated in advance, and it was paid in full by the very people who built Oracle’s empire.
Connect the Dots: From Termination Emails to $300B Deals
Let’s connect the dots with the cold, ruthless logic these corporations used.
An employee with 20 years of service, a top performer, gets a mandatory “Project Updates” calendar invite. He joins. A soulless HR rep reads a script. Within five minutes, his laptop is wiped, his access is severed, his career is over. He is a ghost. His manager, kept deliberately in the dark, finds out shortly after—and is then terminated himself. The veteran later tells a reporter, “I just got traded in for a GPU.”
He was more right than he knew. He wasn’t just traded for a GPU; he was liquidated to help fund the purchase of millions of them.
The Grim Calculus: Humans as Line-Item Expenses
This $300 billion deal with OpenAI, part of the Trump-backed Project Stargate, requires an almost unimaginable investment—4.5 gigawatts of power, entire cities’ worth of computational infrastructure. To free up the capital and operational bandwidth for this monstrous undertaking, Oracle’s leadership made a conscious, calculated decision: human assets had to be converted into financial ones. The salaries, benefits, and operational overhead of experienced, loyal American workers were not seen as an investment in people; they were a line-item expense obstructing a $300 billion prize.
This is the final, ugly truth of late-stage corporatism: You are not a person. You are a resource unit. Your value is not in your wisdom, your skill, or your dedication. Your value is in how efficiently you can be converted into capital to feed the next growth cycle.
The Staggering Hypocrisy: Innovation Built on Betrayal
The hypocrisy is breathtaking. This deal was celebrated on X, boosting Oracle’s stock and minting Larry Ellison as the world’s richest man. The press releases tout “historic partnerships” and “American innovation.” They will not mention the seasoned engineers, the marketing directors, the sales veterans who were marched to the digital guillotine to make it happen. Their sacrifice is the unmentioned foundation upon which this “Stargate” is being built.
This Is the Blueprint, Not an Anomaly
And let’s be clear: this is not just an Oracle problem. This is the blueprint. This is Corporate America 2025. We see it in gaming, where studios purge veteran developers to fund the chase for ESG scores and microtransaction casinos. We see it in every industry where the humanity of the workforce is the first casualty in the war for market dominance.
The New Terrifying Power: A Future Without People
Project Stargate is not just a deal. It is a monument. A shrine to the machine age where the human being is the first and most disposable fuel source. It is a declaration that the future belongs not to people, but to systems. Not to creators, but to algorithms. Not to citizens, but to circuits. Not to loyalty, but to liquidation.
Conclusion: Do Not Kneel Before the Altar
The lesson for every working professional is brutally clear: Your loyalty is a liability. Your experience is a cost center. Your humanity is negotiable.
Do not give your life to a company that would trade it for a processor. Build your own skills, your own networks, your own means of production. The social contract is not just broken—it was shredded to fuel a $300 billion engine that will never thank you for your service.
Oracle has shown us the future: a gleaming altar to artificial intelligence, built from the bones of its own people. Do not kneel before it.
—Wolfshead
