The Quiet Collapse of Work
No pink slips. No headlines. Just silence.
One day your team’s “restructured.” The next, you’re doing two jobs for the same pay, until one day, you’re not needed at all. No firing, no thank-you, no closure. Just gone.
AI didn’t take over with robots kicking down the door. It crept in through management meetings, “efficiency reviews,” and budget sheets. And now entire departments vanish without a sound.
They call it progress. But it feels more like erasure.
We used to have jobs that gave people purpose, now we have tasks that drain what’s left of it.
We used to build careers, now we just try to survive the next “optimization.”
The worst part isn’t losing the paycheck.
It’s losing the reason to get up in the morning.
It’s not a crash. It’s a fade, and no one’s coming to stop it.
https://redd.it/1o7azqj
@r_latestagecapitalism
No pink slips. No headlines. Just silence.
One day your team’s “restructured.” The next, you’re doing two jobs for the same pay, until one day, you’re not needed at all. No firing, no thank-you, no closure. Just gone.
AI didn’t take over with robots kicking down the door. It crept in through management meetings, “efficiency reviews,” and budget sheets. And now entire departments vanish without a sound.
They call it progress. But it feels more like erasure.
We used to have jobs that gave people purpose, now we have tasks that drain what’s left of it.
We used to build careers, now we just try to survive the next “optimization.”
The worst part isn’t losing the paycheck.
It’s losing the reason to get up in the morning.
It’s not a crash. It’s a fade, and no one’s coming to stop it.
https://redd.it/1o7azqj
@r_latestagecapitalism
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