https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-laid-off-twitter-workers-value-tech-jobs-work-2023-5
Discourse has recently raged over the apparent trend of "fake work," with some execs and investors claiming that tech companies overhired and gave people unnecessary jobs as a "vanity metric." Proponents of the theory say that this is why tech giants are now slashing so many jobs.
Elon Musk grossly over-estimated how much people would be willing to work at a company that's not about electric cars, scifi space travel, or honestly anything interesting despite terrible working conditions.