A Tech Worker’s Guide to Interest Rates

Over the past few years of tech industry ruin, I’ve had friends and family worriedly ask me and my wife how our jobs have been going. “I’ve been seeing news of layoffs,” they say. “Why is it that almost every single tech company seems to be tightening its belt, cutting costs, and laying people off all at once?” Among other causes, I usually mention government interest rates. And I’m sometimes met…