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re: Layoffs are not slowing down..they are accelerating. And as much as y’all hate it AI plays
Posted on 2/5/26 at 11:30 am to AwgustaDawg
Posted on 2/5/26 at 11:30 am to AwgustaDawg
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I can't wait to get on an airplane and there not be a human being or even a seat in the cockpit. Right winged hero Charlie Kirk once said, to vast approval amongst his followers, "If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified'. Apparently qualification to fly an airplane is reliant on skin color...who knew. But Imagine a world where the brilliant minded like Charlie Kirk can get on a plane and never suffer from fear that the pilot's skin is too dark to be qualified. That is a very liberating thought....I personally never knew that skin color was a qualification for piloting an airplane and just assumed it was more about eye / hand coordination and experience but I was wrong. A computer has no skin so poor old Charlie and folks like him won't have ANY fear at all. Thats freedom baby!
Not gonna lie I almost took the bait. This exposed you as a fricktard though.
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Posted on 2/5/26 at 11:33 am to jclem11
the tech bro killed himself with his own hand
Posted on 2/5/26 at 11:37 am to Paul Allen
The office market is just starting to stabilize with old office towers being converted or demolished. I expect this trend to continue. I am hoping, if enough QUALITY office conversions happen, downtowns will be revitalized in a very cool way.
Posted on 2/5/26 at 11:40 am to NIH
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People making white collar money hire blue collar workers at higher pay rates. This isn’t hard.
No, not exactly. Price is a function of supply intersecting demand. While people moving from white to blue collar will undoubtedly impact how much demand there is for high-end blue-collar work, there's always demand for mid and low tiered work. Always.
Adding more supply of workers will drive prices for those services down, but it's not a 1:1, far from it. Remember, those transitioning workers will still need blue collar workers in other trades as well as not all will move from white collar to blue collar, instead moving into other white collar positions.
Posted on 2/5/26 at 11:55 am to Bard
That didn’t address my point at all.
Posted on 2/5/26 at 12:41 pm to jdd48
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Not gonna lie I almost took the bait. This exposed you as a fricktard though.
Dammit....too high in the water column or too much speed?
Posted on 2/5/26 at 12:50 pm to sidewalkside
Electricity ended the careers of many a candle maker.
Posted on 2/5/26 at 12:53 pm to sidewalkside
I'm on the bullseye
My company implemented an AI program around mid 2025 which is doing 60% of our work.
My department has 12 people who are running out of work daily by 10 am then just sitting around until time to go.
Everything is on-line so there's nothing else, when you hit F5 nothing comes up.
My company implemented an AI program around mid 2025 which is doing 60% of our work.
My department has 12 people who are running out of work daily by 10 am then just sitting around until time to go.
Everything is on-line so there's nothing else, when you hit F5 nothing comes up.
Posted on 2/5/26 at 12:56 pm to NIH
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That didn’t address my point at all.
It does, it's just that your point was wrong because it relied on those layoffs happening en masse and in a vacuum.
The layoffs aren't going to happen all at one time and those who are laid off aren't all going to remain laid off, aren't going to all make substantially less in their new jobs, nor will they all transition into blue-collar jobs which are in high demand (although some may).
Posted on 2/5/26 at 1:00 pm to sidewalkside
AI will put the trades out of business.
Only then will aspiring tradesmen be forced to apply themselves towards something that actually requires neurons, like a college degree.
Only then will aspiring tradesmen be forced to apply themselves towards something that actually requires neurons, like a college degree.
Posted on 2/5/26 at 1:01 pm to SoFlaGuy
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Good. I know my company could trim some fat. Too many people with made up jobs, who sit on Teams calls all day.
My company didn’t trim fat. They cut 30 incredibly talented American IT professionals and offshored their work to India and Hungary.
Sure they cost 1/3 the price but in my short experience they cause 3X’s more headaches
This post was edited on 2/5/26 at 1:02 pm
Posted on 2/5/26 at 1:38 pm to Bard
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It does, it's just that your point was wrong because it relied on those layoffs happening en masse and in a vacuum.
The layoffs aren't going to happen all at one time and those who are laid off aren't all going to remain laid off, aren't going to all make substantially less in their new jobs, nor will they all transition into blue-collar jobs which are in high demand (although some may).
A lot of folks don't really think about this.
In my opinion, there is a tipping point at which government will have to regulate things like AI.
50% of the current workforce being eliminated (other than normal attrition) would decimate any country, not to mention any more of a workforce elimination than that.
The simpletons who constantly regurgitate, "muh AI can't replace plumbers," are not only wrong, they're missing the point.
What good does it do to be a plumber if no one has money to pay you?
And if humanoid robots/AI do everything and there's some sort of universal income, why does anyone want to be a plumber and have to actually work?
I think governments gets involved before it ever gets to that point, to save themselves. Otherwise, we'll have some very long "middle ground correction time" that will be much worse than the Great Depression for no reason other than "muh AI".
Posted on 2/5/26 at 1:40 pm to sidewalkside
Deporting as fast as we can.
Posted on 2/5/26 at 1:43 pm to VolsOut4Harambe
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It's real. Home Depot just laid off 800 corporate workers.
I work for a competitor on the finance side. Home Depot is an insanely bloated company so they probably needed it.
Posted on 2/5/26 at 1:50 pm to VolsOut4Harambe
quote:should have moved them into the store to mix paint or show up and cut me some wire when I hit the request button so I’m not waiting 20 min
It's real. Home Depot just laid off 800 corporate workers.
But I’m sure that would have been beneath them to load some lumber
This post was edited on 2/5/26 at 1:51 pm
Posted on 2/5/26 at 1:51 pm to Jake88
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Elon says saving for retirement will be irrelevant in the next twenty years
Free shite for everybody?
Carousel, and Soylent Green plants.
Posted on 2/5/26 at 2:45 pm to sidewalkside
Did AI take all the illegal's jobs? I heard there would be no one to hire if we shipped them out.
Posted on 2/5/26 at 3:37 pm to SidewalkTiger
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The simpletons who constantly regurgitate, "muh AI can't replace plumbers," are not only wrong, they're missing the point.
And people who can't seem to get into otherwise civil discourse without randomly delving into pejoratives show the weakness of their stance, their inability to argue their stance or both.
Sooooo... congrats?
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50% of the current workforce being eliminated (other than normal attrition) would decimate any country, not to mention any more of a workforce elimination than that.
From the late 50s and into the 70s there was an "automation anxiety" where people were scared the move to automation was going to devastate the economy by destroying jobs. In 1956 Herbert Simon, a future Nobel Prize winner, declared that “machines will be capable, within 20 years, of doing any work a man can do." Economist John Kenneth Galbraith warned in the early 1960s that automation would create an "unemployment situation, in comparison with which the present recession and even the depression of the thirties will seem a pleasant joke." A 1975 BusinessWeek article predicted that computers and digital tools would make paper obsolete in offices by the 1980s or 1990s, drastically reducing clerical jobs.
While there were thousands of jobs lost to automation, it wasn't the millions predicted, it wasn't overnight and those workers went on to work in other fields instead of remaining unemployed for the rest of their lives. By 1976 machines were not capable of "doing any work a man can do" and still aren't even a half-century later.
The 80s came along and automation continued, but the burgeoning field of robotics and the coming of computers ("computerphobia") re-fueled and refocused the scare. NYT from 1980- A Robot Is After Your Job
In 1981, an AP report claimed, "word processors and personal computers will make secretaries obsolete by the end of the decade." Instead, secretarial roles evolved into administrative and executive assistant positions, with office jobs growing overall as computers enabled more tasks (data management, compliance, etc). Similarly, the death of middle-class office jobs was predicted by various Federal Reserve analyses in the late 1980s–early 1990s due to the belief that computers would eliminate middle-tier roles like clerks and bookkeepers. Once again the fear outpaced reality as such jobs persisted or transformed with tech increasing demand for related skills (spreadsheet management, for example).
In 1996, author Jeremy Rifkin opined in his book The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era that tens of millions of jobs would be permanently eliminated due to automation and IT would wipe out jobs in manufacturing, agriculture, and services, leading to a "post-market era" with chronic unemployment. While he didn't give a timeframe, the tone and tenor of his words implies that it should have already happened.
So approximately every decade or so we have something that comes up to potentially change the job landscape and it's touted as a "job-killer" with the implied stance of "but this time, it's really it! The big one! Oh-em-gee!" The results of all of this hype has been a growing economy, growing population, growing wealth and a growing standard of living across all income levels.
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What good does it do to be a plumber if no one has money to pay you?
Setting aside the "this doesn't happen in a vacuum like that" rebuttal, let's turn that back on you a bit... What good is AI if no one can afford to buy things which use AI? People love making the argument that AI is going to make the wealthy even more wealthy, but how is that possible if they cause everyone else to be unemployed? Where are they getting their money from at that point? How are they selling product?
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And if humanoid robots/AI do everything and there's some sort of universal income, why does anyone want to be a plumber and have to actually work?
Excellent question, but I think you miss the most important aspect of that. If robots/AI do everything, why do we need any form of currency? Of what use is money if everything is made for free? The point of a post-scarcity society though, that's a whooooole other discussion.
While AI has the theoretical potential to replace lots of jobs over time, the only real certainty is that we will adapt.
Posted on 2/5/26 at 3:44 pm to sidewalkside
A lot of layoffs aren’t from AI, but rather contractions in the business as the economy slides. AI is going to disrupt much, but it isn’t there yet, and 95% of AI projects fail because so much of this is uncharted territory.
AI is a great excuse and air cover for Wall Street.
AI is a great excuse and air cover for Wall Street.
This post was edited on 2/5/26 at 3:45 pm
Posted on 2/5/26 at 3:54 pm to RummelTiger
I’ve been posting about AI related layoffs for months and the naysayers want to blame everything else and bury their heads in the sand and think THEIR job is safe from AI.
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