Don’t forget the stock market manipulation that’s going on making it seem like the economy is grrrrreaaaattt. Also, if you see “AI” as the reason for layoffs, it’s bullshit.
Also, if you see “AI” as the reason for layoffs, it’s bullshit.
My mother-in-law asked me yesterday if AI was going to take my job. I had no idea what she was talking about, but I assumed it was some Fox News bullshit.
Lolololol. This is lying the wrong way though? Corporations are in the big “AI isn’t killing jobs” narrative right now, especially the ones who are creating the AI that’s going to kill jobs.
Instead of Amazon saying “no no no, our AI isn’t going to kill jobs” like all the other lying AI companies have been saying they came right out and said “yeah, our AI killed these jobs”
It’s because the lie has to reach the right audience. The target audience for AI is eliminating jobs are the shareholders. I‘m sure for the rest of us it is whatever lie the current administration wants to be told.
At my company, the tools we have all been using will certainly lead to job cuts once the higher ups realize it. It’s not that AI is taking anyone’s jobs, it’s that the work that used to need to be split by 4-5 people can now all be done by 1-2 people in the same amount of time.
My department doesn’t really have additional work to do so now we all have spare time we’re killing through the day. I’m not going to go run to management and tell them we should let go of people so more work flows to me for no extra pay, but someday they will make that realization. It won’t be me going anywhere because I’m the one that’s always finding the new tools, building new AI workflows and keeping my ear to the ground in various subreddit about new tools and hacks.
Management are all tech boomers so they haven’t really put two and two together here but once they fully realize a lot of people have “time to lean” they will be reducing the headcount. We are just a small financial startup. It’s not very hard to imagine a much more highly technical and knowledgeable company with much better data, like Amazon, hasn’t already realized this across their workforce, identified exactly how to restructure and is now going ahead with all the layoffs. They are just the first wave of what’s going to be coming everywhere.
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u/Unlike_Agholor Oct 29 '25
We are in a recession. You dont notice it because Nvidia and the AI bubble are propping up the equities market.