Tom Bilyeu
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Understand that a 4% unemployment rate is like, okay, we're comfortable there.
10%?
More than double?
20%?
5X?
Like you start getting into depression territory.
It doesn't mean that we'll actually be in a depression.
I wanna be very clear.
It's all unknown.
We don't know how this stuff is gonna manifest, but it is going to be radically different.
And as large companies have laid off people, they've always done it under this guise of like, hey, this wasn't really about AI.
Like we had some other reason, like any other reason other than AI, making it unclear if the incredibly horrific 2025 job numbers were actually related to AI or not.
I did a deep dive all about the jobs report and what's real and what's going on.
Dude, it is cataclysmic.
The jobs in 25 were horrifyingly low.
And the only question is why, what is going on?
Now, what Jack just did made the answer to those 2025 jobs numbers very clear in my opinion.
It's really one of the first times that such a large layoff has been made where the CEO just said plainly,
This is because we no longer need as many people because AI is just that good.
Now, speaking from personal experience, I'm telling you, this is true.