And I think there's a higher-level abstraction that applies to everything: growth never does maintenance. Growth does not see value in anything other than what propagates more growth. So layoffs are a natural choice. "Well, these people aren't performing at the level of this benchmark I set. What do they do? Oh, they run a class with some people? Fuck that, we don't need that shit." Because these people also don't interact with services, businesses, or customers.
They're one step above everything. Our economy is dominated by people who don’t do real work, who don’t understand real problems, and thus can’t solve them—and really don’t see why they would in the first place. Inherently selfish, but also inherently cancerous.
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They go in there and say, "Well, we have too many people, and we need to save money. Delete, delete." That’s how that works. That’s how business works. They don’t care whether the government functions. They don’t know if Yellowstone has, like, three people full-time now. They don’t think about these things because they think everything in numbers.
They do not participate in reality. These people—Elon Musk included—are divorced from reality in so many ways.
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But all of this is symbolic of a bigger problem: the economy is divorced from production entirely right now. The people running the economy do not do real work and do not face real problems. So generative AI seems magical to them. All they do is read emails, send emails, ignore emails, and go to lunch.
"Wow, a thing that can summarize the emails I don’t want to read? Holy shit. I bet this thing will become God in two years."
And it’s like… yeah, the only problem in the world is emails, and this thing can take care of some of your emails for you. Okay, great, that’s all we need.
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Is it the future? No.
