This is why it’s not worth your time breaking your neck, sacrificing time with family and loved ones, and putting your health at risk to try and climb the corporate ladder. You can work every waking hour, kiss every ass, and one day they’re like ‘we need to axe 20% of staff for some bullshit’ and you’re gone.
My friend works at a large electrical company who have been building out data centers in CA and TX. A lot of their projects have been delayed or frozen, along with much of the hiring they were doing. The unofficial consensus is that this is the AI bubble bursting. They've had a productive few years, and earned a lot of money, but they knew it wasn't going to last. The good thing about blue collar workers is that they have a better sense of reality than white collar ones.
Can you imagine the sheer amount of spin and bullshit needed to make that acceptable in a manufacturing environment? Not just a bunch of people sitting at computers, but entire factories and supply chains working 24/7?
This bubble is going to be significantly worse than the last. I’m starting to see that the tech industry has long ago peaked.
$1.5T in offense war spending to kill civilians and steal their stuff.
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