Anonymousabout 3 hours ago
Since 2022, the global tech industry has eliminated more than 800,000 positions while pouring hundreds of billions into AI infrastructure, yet only about 27% of 2025 layoffs were explicitly attributed to automation — and surveys show most cuts are based on AI's anticipated potential, not proven results. As companies spend roughly 70 times more on AI capital expenditure than on severance, the gap between executive messaging and measurable productivity gains raises hard questions about who bears the cost of an industrial transformation whose payoff remains uncertain.