Andy Halliday

We talked about Prism.

Opening up.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Pretty cool.

All right.

Now for something completely different.

Amazon laid off 16,000 corporate employees.

Its second major cut in three months.

CEO Andy Jassy said AI-driven automation will mean we need fewer people doing some of the jobs.

So I want to put this in the context of the long body of my life.

So when I grew up,

There were people in small towns around America and even in larger towns who went to work on Main Street and worked in the local Sears, you know, storefront that, you know, serviced the mail order thing.

And they worked in the coffee shop or they worked in all of these small retailers that would provide, you know, clothing and, you know, pharmaceuticals and so on.

And then commerce with the advent of Amazon went from Main Street to your street.

Now the Amazon trucks are right on your street and the output of commerce is coming to your home.

And now there's automation going to hit those truck drivers automatically.

Plus, AI is going to take the place of the knowledge workers and other workers inside the Amazon superstructure, whether that's in their distribution centers or in their corporate offices, et cetera, distributed around the world.

And so it went from Main Street, where you could –

You'll walk in and talk to the people who are in your community and get the goods right off the store shelves there to your street.