> It’s true that some shortsighted corporations would be happy to do the same work they do now but with fewer people.<p>It is called "automation" and it is exactly what corporations have been doing for decades:<p>"Job-replacing tech has directly driven the income gap since the late 1980s, economists report."<p><a href="https://news.mit.edu/2020/study-inks-automation-inequality-0506" rel="nofollow">https://news.mit.edu/2020/study-inks-automation-inequality-0...</a>
Little consolation to those laid off and unable to find new employment or have to settle to a much reduced salary in some new field...<p>Of course when people in mocking gave the same bs optimistic take and gave the same bs advice about reinventing themselves ("just learn to code") to journalists writing such bull when the latter were laid-off, they cried abuse...