See we replaced people with costs to run virtual people that would make oracle blush. Are the virtual people any good? Goodness no.

The problem here is “expected.” Maybe they’re right and AI will do what they say…well, show us the receipts first then before you ruin thousands of people’s lives?

Layoffs aren't caused by AI efficiency. It's the reverse. Layoffs and other aggressive cost-cutting cause CEOs to blather about future AI efficiencies.

Efficiency is how CEOs justify being still able to run (no, GROW) their companies with 40% less people. Besides AI, there are the dear old "you have to work harder" efficiency (see: 996 culture or Uber ) and the organizational efficiency where they are all "removing managerial layers to enable quicker execution" (see Amazon for instance).

See how these things became all fashionable again at the same time with tech company CEOs? It's because they are just excuses and hopes, at this point. And AI is the least bad-sounding of them, because it smells like progress, magic and automation (while even the most rabid of investors will recognize that working employees to death doesn't scale beyond the limited numbers of hours there are in a day).

Also we shout stop to buy us tech producs completly.

https://www.goeuropean.org/

I want to do that if there is a deal in which part of what I spend is reinvested in hiring workers at humane rates.

Or, even better, in sharing ownership with the workers.

The "bodega romanticism" is something I see as a huge societal issue, also because I can imagine a lot of "bodegas" actually dreaming to achieve the same kind of success of Big Tech.

Inertia is one of the primary negative forces that moves humanity.

It's always the network effect.