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highplainsdem

(59,049 posts) Mon Nov 17, 2025, 12:15 PM 7 hrs ago

Hassett: "There could be a little bit of an almost quiet time in the labor market" thanks to AI & not needing new hires

And look at Trump economic advisor Kevin Hassett smile as he says this.

Kevin Hassett: "I think there could be a little bit of an almost quiet time in the labor market, because firms are finding that AI is making their workers so productive that they don't necessarily have to hire the new kids out of college and so on."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-11-17T13:33:26.812Z

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Hassett: "There could be a little bit of an almost quiet time in the labor market" thanks to AI & not needing new hires (Original Post) highplainsdem 7 hrs ago OP

So, if AI is taking over current jobs, what do those people that lost jobs do in a labor market where there is no OLDMDDEM 7 hrs ago #1

I think it means that... 2naSalit 7 hrs ago #4

"Just lie back and relax" durablend 7 hrs ago #5

Exactly. 2naSalit 7 hrs ago #8

This is very bad for workers and for the economy as a whole. LonePirate 7 hrs ago #2

k/r Dawson Leery 6 hrs ago #14

In the utopian novels RockCreek 7 hrs ago #3

The rich said "Nah" durablend 7 hrs ago #6

Allowing all our wealth to accrue to the greediest among us. W_HAMILTON 7 hrs ago #7

So, it's not the immigrants stealing jobs? Sailingdiver 7 hrs ago #9

No kidding leftstreet 7 hrs ago #11

That's a new euphemism. yardwork 7 hrs ago #10

Why is a human telling us this? purr-rat beauty 6 hrs ago #12

Just a calm, pleasant spell of mass employment, poverty, and hunger Prairie Gates 6 hrs ago #13

From Newsom's Press Office: highplainsdem 4 hrs ago #15

OLDMDDEM

(2,938 posts)

1. So, if AI is taking over current jobs, what do those people that lost jobs do in a labor market where there is no

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Nov 17, 2025, 12:18 PM

7 hrs ago

hiring. Does this mean that young people now should not be getting a college degree as AI is taking over?

2naSalit

(98,957 posts)

4. I think it means that...

Reply to OLDMDDEM (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 17, 2025, 12:29 PM

7 hrs ago

AI is about to replace the working class and that the working class should just sit down and shut up and let it happen. They don't want us to fight back because they know we win if/when we do.