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highplainsdem

(59,050 posts) Mon Nov 17, 2025, 12:15 PM 17 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 [View all]

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 [View all] highplainsdem 17 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 17 hrs ago #1

I think it means that... 2naSalit 17 hrs ago #4

"Just lie back and relax" durablend 17 hrs ago #5

Exactly. 2naSalit 17 hrs ago #8

This is very bad for workers and for the economy as a whole. LonePirate 17 hrs ago #2

k/r Dawson Leery 16 hrs ago #14

In the utopian novels RockCreek 17 hrs ago #3

The rich said "Nah" durablend 17 hrs ago #6

Allowing all our wealth to accrue to the greediest among us. W_HAMILTON 17 hrs ago #7

So, it's not the immigrants stealing jobs? Sailingdiver 17 hrs ago #9

No kidding leftstreet 17 hrs ago #11

That's a new euphemism. yardwork 17 hrs ago #10

Why is a human telling us this? purr-rat beauty 16 hrs ago #12

Just a calm, pleasant spell of mass employment, poverty, and hunger Prairie Gates 16 hrs ago #13

From Newsom's Press Office: highplainsdem 14 hrs ago #15