You know, maybe, just maybe, we wouldn’t be in a recession if companies would stop constantly laying people off, allowing people to be comfortable and happy and have money to spend on things

Hah, if only it was that easy.

We are in a recession because there are multiple insane and pointless wars going on atm over oil, because it's running out. Thats... basically all there is to it.

All the money/resources are getting funnelled into blowing up childrens hospitals at the moment, and that makes everything else wither away.

You can't spend a billion dollars a day blowing up childrens hospitals and it not in turn come from somewhere.

A handful of stupid powerful men are all wagging their dicks at each other and draining the entire worlds working class blood to do it.

Which is basically all of human history ever. It isnt the first time this has happened, nor will it be the last.

Like great, you figured out your empliyees have like, 25% downtime or whatever, that doesn’t mean its useful to fire 1/4 employees and make everyone else “pick up the slack”.

No, what happens is companies literally arent making as much sales, figures are down, and they are genuinely struggling. So they fire everyone at a key moment to make their profits look better to investors so when they present graphs, they can do just enough gymnastics with the numbers to make their quarterly losses actually look like record profits (the number went up cuz they fired a bunch of people AFTER they made the sales)

This buys them another 4 months to scrape by before investors start raising eyebrows and think about bailing out.

And of course investors will ask "So why did you fire 25% of your workforce then?" to which the CEO smiles and goes "Cuz AI obviously" which is total bullshit but the investors eat it up and dont panic sell out there shares

Thats literally all there is to it. Its not even that complicated lol. AI actually has nothing to do with it, the company might not even be using AI that much but the investors and public don't know that. They cant sit and investigate every single company that claims "We replaced workers with AI". They just go "Okay I guess" and shrug.

It means that’s business, and that bit ofna break probably keeps your employees happy and thus more productive, instead of work work work stress thats going to ultimately kill productivity because everyone is depressed and miserable and whats the point, the company will just randomly lay me off for working hard anyway.

In the event that you are actually a successful company and actually have truly introduced AI into your workers workflows and they have indeed become more productive, any sane company responds to this by reducing the price of their product/service instead to be more competitive. Thats the substantially more sane realistic choice you'd make. "Oh, I can do the same job 25% faster than my competition? I can lower my prices and now outbid everyone with my team and rake in all the work I could ever want"

And then since your pool of jobs goes up exponentially (as your price goes down, demand goes up exponentially cuz wealth follows a curve, if you can reduce your cost by 50%, you more than double your prospective buyers/clients), you will want to instead hire more people

So in the real scenario where a company goes "wow our employees can do their job 25% faster" any sane CEO would go "Okay asap we have to start hiring more people then and scale up and leverage this before our competition starts doing the same thing"

Any case you hear of a company doing the opposite means they are just lying