The real AI labor crisis: companies just stop replacing people who leave
VraserX · x · 2026-08-18
A widely shared take: the real AI labor crisis begins not when companies fire people, but when they realize they don't have to—employees who leave naturally simply aren't replaced, with AI quietly filling the gap. This kind of silent attrition-based substitution may arrive sooner and more broadly than mass layoffs.
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