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.
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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.
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Admitting that a free market doesn't work
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Trump administration will set price floors across range of industries to combat China, Bessent says
China has driven foreign competitors out of business over the past two decades by using its market dominance to slash prices, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.
Furloughed Generation: Signs of a Late Stage Capitalism
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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat | Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
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Mamdani channels growing opposition into the dead end of the Democratic Party
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Mamdani channels growing opposition into the dead end of the Democratic Party
Offering a reform program far more modest than those of garden-variety liberals in the 1960s, the Mamdani campaign serves to disarm working people in New York City—and nationally—in the face of the Trump administration’s drive to dictatorship.
ICE Detains Citizen After Saying She Doesn’t “Look Like” Her Last Name | She even had her U.S. passport on her.
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Google allowed Israel's famine-denial 'ads', despite multiple countries raising complaints (like Poland). Previously Google co-founder Sergey Brin denied the genocide in Gaza and called the UN antisemitic.
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