Is AI Leading to Layoffs or Does the Economy Just Suck?

Photo caption: After 2,000 jobs are made available for park improvements and repairs, about 5,000 unemployed people gather outside City Hall in Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 9, 1930 during the Great Depression. Photo credit: AP Photo via Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain. Article by Lucas Ropek. Gizmodo – October 30, 2025.

It’s not a particularly good time to be a (human) worker in America. Tens of thousands of people have been laid off over the past several days, and the general outlook for job-seekers appears grim, to say the least. This week, Amazon announced plans to neutralize some 14,000 positions, while Meta said it would purge several hundred people from various offices throughout California and Washington state. […]

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