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I don’t think that sufficiently explains it either. We all want a nice little bow on a simple, easy target. But there isn’t one.

Block, for example, said that they had experienced record profits… in spite of their, “hiring spree.”

This is just capitalism working as usual, only more of it, faster.

AI has a part in it. So does austerity policies and the rise of a certain political climate.



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