Microsoft layoffs and AI job losses: is tech eating its own market?
skatejraney · reddit · 2026-10-27
- A Reddit user warns that mass tech layoffs (Microsoft's buyouts affecting over 25% of its workforce) combined with AI-driven job replacement could make the economy unsustainable.
- Core argument: companies rely on consumers' purchasing power; if AI replaces human workers at scale, consumer spending shrinks and companies end up 'eating themselves alive'.
- The author is skeptical of claims that new jobs will emerge, seeing few signs of them in reality.
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