If this really keeps up unchecked, anyone who posts on social media is in danger. |
Only idiots are gleeful.
Musk is recruiting 13 employees in India for every one in US. There are massive layoffs happening. The recession will impact everyone. Let it all burn the ground. MAGA needs to go through pain to learn their lessons. |
Red light cameras pre-date any movement to defund the police. They’ve been around since the 90s. |
And you don't need to pay those tickets in the District because red light cameras are racist. |
They also think the their neighbors are “tHe GoVeRnMeNt” while *President* Trump is… ??? |
I don't have a problem with right-sized organizations. |
DP also in the private sector. I don’t want anyone to lose their jobs. The idea that what’s happening to feds will now cascade to the private sector is just flat out wrong. We’ve had constant mergers, acquisitions, reorgs, and rounds of layoffs to keep up with industry changes. AI is being rolled out and eventually that will take jobs too, but right now it’s helping do jobs we’ve already cut. The DOGE approach is bad and will hurt us all. But no CEO today is looking at what Elon did to twitter and thinking that was a success. They are smart enough to see how he destroyed the value of the company to win the election (which, in turn, has made him richer). That can’t be replicated. |
You’re naive if you think CEOs won’t or haven’t been replicating this. Maybe on a smaller scale but doing the same thing none the less. CEOs don’t care about workers they care about profit above anything else. That’s their only skin in the game which is why they get so much stock, which you will notice most don’t keep they actively sell, because they aren’t really invested in the company. And should they not meet their goals they still get fired with a severance package |
With the rise of AI and automation, everyone is going to be hit hard with job losses. The private sector has long been experiencing these trends; now the government employees are feeling it, too.
It makes one thing absolutely clear to me -- in a nation of 300+ million people and soon-to-be not enough jobs to go around, one thing we absolutely do not need is MORE PEOPLE here. No more low-skill labor, legal or illegal -- we have people without jobs who need those jobs. No more high-skill labor, legal or illegal -- we have our own swelling ranks of highly educated, unemployed people who need those jobs. It's time for an immigration moratorium. |
LOL. Still not the billionaires' fault. Bootlicker. |
You mean not the billionaires' problem. They have enough money to be insulated--break it now, buy it cheap later. |
Not sure what you mean. Many business owners (Bezos, Musk, Gates, etc.) are billionaires. But they're not cutting jobs just because they're greedy billionaires. Technology is rapidly automating many of the jobs that us mere worker-bees perform. These public companies are owned by shareholders and have a legal duty (fiduciary obligation) to run the company to the benefit of the shareholders---if that means replacing low-skill manual workers with automation and high-skill "information" jobs with AI to increase productivity and drive down costs, they are doing what they're supposed to be doing; the government owes the same duty to the taxpayers that fund it. We don't have to like it, but we can't stop the march of technology, either. What we CAN do is stop importing millions of more people every year---people with whom we (or our children) will be competing with for the jobs that remain. It's common sense. Blaming "the billionaires" won't solve the problem or make things better for American workers. What will make things better for American workers is to stop importing millions of more people here when there aren't enough jobs for those of us who are already here. |
Tech sector executives have actually said they believe 99% of white collar workers will be unnecessary in 2-4 years due to AI. Not enough jobs is an understatement. |
That's frankly terrifying. While we should be able to reap the benefits of new technology, I am concerned that human beings need a "job" or a purpose in life -- we can't just let robots and AI do all the work. I do not doubt, however, that the waves of job losses due to automation and AI in the coming years is going to be staggering. We are going to have way too many people for the number of jobs in America that remain. |
Of course ceos are only looking out for themselves. But Twitter is worth 80% less than when Elon bought it. It’s not a success story. |