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Most people aren't fretting about an AI bubble. What they fear is mass layoffs

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/12/ai-bubble-mass-layoffs-income-inequality
5•randycupertino•1mo ago

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ggm•1mo ago
I think this article undersells the fret TBH. People fret about all kinds of things, micro and macro. Certainly, widescale unemployment, economic depression, multi year, multi-generational joblessness is the big dread, but pretending people aren't concerned for their own role under AI displacement, is a bit odd.

Journalist got to Journ I guess.

allears•1mo ago
The whole point of AI is to displace workers, right? Isn't that why businesses are rushing to join the bandwagon? Why would this be a surprise?