Correction: AI was the excuse behind 50,000 layoffs.

Schrodinger's AI: It's both useless slop that serves no real purpose while simultaneously, it's actually good enough to replace people.

No it wasn't, shitty bosses were and AI was their excuse.

AI its current form has replaced exactly no one. Layoffs are at best anticipatory and at worst to pump up stocks.

Yep including mine. Entire team of 120, gone. It was in august, only one of us found a job so far. Merry Christmas! Tx asshole executives i hope your bonuses are not as lean as my xmas.

It wasn't the economic calamity resulting from massive tariffs, government service cuts, tax breaks for the rich, runaway inflation, or the general mismanagement if the entire United States government?

And 51000 frantic rehires at greater cost

AI has been the cause of 50'000 layoffs to middle-lower class employees. Mamy of whom now have no jobs, some homeless, but overall less money going to the working class. Now, has this made companies more moral? More efficient? Has AI created any jobs? I doubt it.

All this has done is increased the profit margins, and enshittified these companies, now writing code, managing employees, and doing other jobs humans should be doing.

need to start a new tax on companies that used AI to replace employees.

that's over 50k citizens that are no longer generating taxable income. 50k citizens that are no longer spending and paying sales tax.

where is all that taxable deficit going to come from? it should come from a tax applied to companies that are required to document how many jobs their AI has replaced. if they lie, audit their asses into oblivion.