[K-Dog]

It's just been 9 days in 2025, and thousands have already lost their jobs in the U.S.; from technology to media, here are the top companies sacking people

Workforce reductions continue into the year 2025 across various industries while following significant job cuts in recent years. According to Business Insider, various companies are citing diverse reasons for these layoffs with a notable influence from technological advancements specifically artificial intelligence (AI).

According to a World Economic Forum survey, 41% of global companies anticipate reducing their workforces over the next five years due to the rise of AI.

Business Insider reported that several major firms have already announced job cuts this year while BlackRock is reducing its workforce by about 200 employees representing 1% of its staff, at the same time, Bridgewater Associates has also cut 7% of its workforce and brought back its numbers back to 2023 levels. Additionally, the Washington Post is also eliminating less than 100 positions in non-newsroom areas to streamline all of its operations.

During such times, Microsoft is also planning unspecified cuts while focusing on underperforming employees.

Ally Financial is laying off approximately 500 employees or nearly less than 5% of its workforce as a part of its strategic right sizing effort, noted Business Insider. These layoffs actually reflect broader trends in the tech and finance sectors where companies are eventually adjusting to economic pressures and technological shifts.

In spite of these cuts, the WEF predicts that tech jobs in areas like AI and big data will double by the year 2030 while indicating a shift in the job landscape as new roles emerge while others become obsolete, asserted Business Insider.

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And here is a reality many now experience:

Feb 10, 2025 2025
Job Apocalypse: Where Did the Work Go? TikTok Rant On Unemployment

A good video.

[K-Dog]

The last post was months ago, but the orange cretin was already fucking things up.  Now those with eyes can see the wheels are coming off.

Trump is demented and destroying the economy.

Yanis gives a clear and cogent explanation of what is happening now.  Not what has been going on.  What is going on now.  The shutdown is costing billions a day, and decimating the American economy.

Trump is criminally irresponsible.  Trump has reached the age where; in real life his drivers license would be taken away.

Yanis gives an impressive talk.

[TDoS]

Trump is criminally irresponsible. 

I can go with that. Problem is, the same can be said for most Presidents. Ronny, King Bush II, Clinton was actually convicted of some shit at some point in time, Nixon skedaddled in order to just avoid the impeachment, etc etc. I will offer that Trump might be doing it for the reasons you mention, him being in the dementia addled old fart category most so than most recent Presidents, although him and Joe might have been close. Trump always having been a blowhard, it is just harder to notice when making comparisons to his past self. Joe though, past comparisons gave him away pretty fast. Anyone remember the Anita Hill hearings? Joe once had quite a mind.

[K-Dog]

Problem is, the same can be said for most Presidents.

I get what you say about them all being rotten to the core, but this one is sadistic.

This fucker idolizes Hannibal Lecter.

"During a rally in New Jersey in May 2024, he said, "'Silence of the Lambs.' Has anyone ever seen 'The Silence of the Lambs'? The late, great Hannibal Lecter is a wonderful man."

People will tell you about themselves, but you have to have ears to listen.

[TDoS]

Problem is, the same can be said for most Presidents.

I get what you say about them all being rotten to the core, but this one is sadistic.

Oh, it could be more than sadistic. I think half the shit he does is brainless babble, off the cuff horseshit from someone lacking much intellectual horsepower, a "feeling" kind of person who has rarely been corrected in his adult life for being ignorant,and isn't now. He has gotten away with being a bully and it comes natural considering his cult of personality he has sold to the American people.

I don't think he would be on any of our radar here in America now, other than bankrupting his companies and chasing beauty pageant skirts and hawking golden steaks but he was given the perfect opponent in 2016. Perfect. A female so willing to debase herself for political power that it repelled plenty of voters including my union parents. That and the party seming to abandon its working base, which is what my parents thought. 

On such small circumstances does history sometimes revolve.

America has spoken, and Americans will bear the consequences. The dementia addled one is ancient history at this point, lame duck from here on out most likely, I am far more fascinated in the next stage of American political evolution in the aftermath. How much of the anti-women, anti-whatever, anti-American attitude remains in the next evolution of "conservatism" will be interesting.   

[K-Dog]

A female so willing to debase herself for political power that it repelled plenty of voters including my union parents.

I'm not being critical by saying it did not even have to go that far.  She had nothing to offer and being a zero is the same as being a negative number in politics.  The Democrats totally blew it.  And they are not learning the lessons they need to.

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Agreement has been reached in the Diner. 👹👺🤬

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[K-Dog]

This channel only has 10 subscribers.  I am number 10.  Three videos with nice visuals and each is a video essay about COLLAPSE.

I was almost moved to cut a part out of this one and host it myself.  It talks about 'DOOM SPENDING'

When people believe that saving diligently still won't lead to security, spending becomes a way to reclaim control in the present. Experiences, convenience, and small luxuries start to feel justified—not because they're affordable, but because tomorrow feels unreliable. Social media intensifies this loop. Endless streams of curated lifestyles, travel, luxury, and "soft life" narratives blur the line between aspiration and expectation. Credit cards quietly bridge the gap between income and desire. Small monthly payments feel harmless until they accumulate into long-term constraints.

Thankfully it is a loop I am not in.  I blundered into the 'fluid' category that is described at the end of the video on my own. 

Inflation for the things people actually need to buy has been growing at about 3.5% a year over the last decade.  Conservative investments have essentially broken even over the same time period and banks pay diddley-squat in interest on CDs and savings accounts.

Was and is it the plan for the American people to pay for government bailouts this way over time by sacrificing quality of American life?  You can bet your ass on it. 

      -------------    Is what I say.

The following backs up some facts made in the videos.

CHALLENGERGRAY.COM • 2025-11-06

Nov 06 October Challenger Report: 153,074 Job Cuts on Cost-Cutting & AI

JOB CUTS SURPASS 1 MILLION; HIGHEST OCTOBER TOTAL SINCE 2003

WHATJOBS.COM • 2025-08-12

2025 US Jobs Report: 806,000 Layoffs, AI Cuts, and Market Panic

As of early August, 806,000 Americans have already lost their jobs this year.

This video offers a scholarly breakdown of the growing U.S. housing crisis, examining why nearly half of American renters are now rent-burdened and living on the edge of eviction. Rather than framing this issue as a matter of personal failure, the analysis situates rent unaffordability within broader structural forces such as wage stagnation, the financialization of housing, weak labor protections, declining public housing investment, and policy choices that favor  markets over people. Drawing from political economy and housing justice scholarship, the video explains how rising rents, corporate ownership of housing, and shrinking social safety nets have converged to produce the largest housing insecurity crisis in modern U.S. history

The crazy thing I was following both of these guys before Eugene found the Functional Melancholic.