Mastodawn

Amazon made $35b profit last year. They're celebrating by laying off 14,000 workers (a number they say will rise to 30k). This is the kind of thing that Wall Street *loves*, and this layoff comes after a string of pronouncements from Amazon CEO about how AI is going to let them fire *tons* of workers.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/29/worker-frightening-machines/#robots-stole-your-jerb-kinda

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T2R Oct 29

@pluralistic Wait until they have to eat crow and have to rehire a bunch of people because "a.i." can't do the job they were promised it could do.

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Thomas Jones

@T2R @pluralistic

Some of the layoffs are due to increasing roboticization in the fulfillment centers. Unless the robots are significantly less useful than they've anticpated, those jobs won't be coming back.

…And if #Trump's planned wiping out of non-citizen and/or insufficiently English-literate CDLs actually happens, they'll have a hard time keeping those fulfillment centers "fed".