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AI HAS STARTED A LAYOFF RACE.
Okay. I’ve been quiet about the AI madness for a while.
Watching.
Listening.
Trying to separate the loudest opinions from what is actually happening.
I’m ready to talk about it.
This is the first post in a series.
No hype.
No “AI will save us.”
No “AI will destroy humanity.”
Just a closer look at the incentives already shaping the market.
A paper by two economists argues that AI can trigger a layoff race.
Here’s the nightmare in plain English:
One company replaces people with AI.
Costs go down.
Investors clap.
Competitors panic.
Nobody wants to be the last business paying a “bloated” payroll while everyone else cuts costs.
So they do it too.
Then the people who lost their jobs have less money to spend.
They buy less.
Demand falls.
Sales drop — not only for the company that fired them, but for everyone.
And what do businesses do when demand drops?
They cut more people.
Every company can say: “We had to. Everyone else was doing it.”
Individually, that decision may be rational.
Collectively, it is a disaster.
Cheaper products sound great — until fewer people can afford to buy them.
That is the trap.
The authors call it a prisoner’s dilemma. Firms capture the savings from automation, while the damage to demand gets spread across the whole market.
Their solution? A tax on automation that replaces workers — not to punish useful AI, but to stop companies from outsourcing the cost of layoffs to everyone else.
Sounds dramatic?
Maybe.
But the next question is more important:
Is this actually what is happening right now?
In the next posts, we’ll look at the market without the AI fever: jobs, money, data, energy — and the parts nobody puts in the pitch deck.
So, freelancers: scared yet?
Sources for this post:
Transparency note:
Written by a human.
Translated from Russian to English with GPT.
GPT’s output, facts, and sources were reviewed by a human.
𝗔𝗜-𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗠𝗩𝗣𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿𝘀.
Like recently, I built GolfSwings.ai, an AI-powered golf coaching app.
𝙃𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙛𝙡𝙤𝙬 𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚: record your swing or upload a video, and the AI analyzes it across 300+ data points to give you insights, identify improvement areas, and help you understand what to work on.
No complicated process. Just upload, analyze, and get useful insights.
And honestly, this is the kind of AI MVP I genuinely enjoy building, taking a complex idea and turning it into something simple that actually helps the user.
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