The great AI labour substitution has announced itself

When Jack Dorsey says Block's workforce was "made redundant by AI tools," he is not predicting—he is reporting. When Oracle guts 18% of its workforce to fund AI infrastructure, the calculus is explicit: human labour as a cost centre to be minimised, compute as the asset to be maximised. The scale is unprecedented: 150,000 tech jobs cut in four months, pace accelerating. But the silence around it is equally unprecedented. There is no mass movement, no political platform, no cultural narrative ade ...