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The layoffs could be as high as 20% of the company!
We can't keep rewarding Big Tech for choosing AI over people.
We need to make the switch to support smaller & better businesses - reminder about purchasewithpurpose.io to help you get started.
Also we shout stop to buy us tech producs completly.
https://www.goeuropean.org/
Agreed! There are lots of excellent EU-based alternatives.
EU is going down the same path. The "EU alternative" stuff is just bogus. It's just a matter of time before EU starts doing the same.
Chat Control comes to mind.
Us tech is on a completely different level evil wise. Maybe it gets worse but in the moment EU tech is much less evil. Just listen to what the openai ceo says in interviews.
I want to do that if there is a deal in which part of what I spend is reinvested in hiring workers at humane rates.
Or, even better, in sharing ownership with the workers.
The "bodega romanticism" is something I see as a huge societal issue, also because I can imagine a lot of "bodegas" actually dreaming to achieve the same kind of success of Big Tech.
I don't think AI is to blame. They just don't need those people. I heard big tech hired a lot of people to steal them from smaller businesses, so they could not compete with them. If those employees had been useful to them, they wouldn't fire them.