I'd be curious what the statistics might actually be for people who are directly affected because their business is suffering vs. people affected because their employer's business is suffering.

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6LLvveMx2koXfwn 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Most people's employment prospects are directly correlated with their employers ability to make money.

	▲	john_strinlai 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		most people's employers arent firing people over a few hours of github outage. not to mention that any business which could potentially lose enough money that they would need to let go of developers from a github outage should probably already have some business continuity plans in place.

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polycaster 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

For Germany it's roughly 1:11 if you go by the self-employment rate (~8% of the workforce).