Interesting to speculate how many of these are "Bullshit Jobs", which arguably are the only ones AI is capable of replacing. While this may suck in the short term (especially for USians and others without a decent social security net), in the long run it may lead to more fulfilling work.
this post was submitted on 19 May 2026
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"This category was down by 0.2% from May of 2024 to May of 2025, a tiny drop, but one made more notable by employment in general trending up 0.8% in the same time period."
So it just dropped enough for the people deploying ai to realize it sucks and people are cheaper and better. Jeez media really likes to write the headline that keep the advertisers happy.
All of capitalism is keeping advertisers happy. Advertisers and shareholders.
Maybe we should switch to co-ops and employee-owned companies to fix that bullshit
This category was down by 0.2% from May of 2024 to May of 2025, a tiny drop, but one made more notable by employment in general trending up 0.8% in the same time period.
Correlation much?
Comparing a trend in a category expected to be affected by AI, to general employment doesn't mean the drop is because of the expected reason. Could be those businesses are suffering job losses for other, more mundane reasons.
Hopefully the AI bubble will slowly lose air instead of popping all at once and we won't have a devastating crash.
Maybe?
As a generation that has experienced several once in a lifetime events. Lol. Lmao even.
- Mass layoffs due to AI.
- Economy crashes due to AI bubble burst.
- Businesses collapse because AI can't replace the people that got replaced, especially in the long term
- Economy sucks so there's no money to hire the people who lost their jobs
- War and climate change get worse and affect the nouveaux poore more than ever before
- A huge volcanic eruption or meteor hit causes local deaths somewhere and worldwide catastrophe
- Half-Life 3 releases, but nobody has money or hardware to play it
- Aliens invade
- Economy goes wild with some stupid new tech.
I have to say, this is definitely right otp