On January 15, 2024, Apple revealed that the company was planning to shut down and a research team related to artificial intelligence in San Diego; As of January 10, the number of layoffs at Microsoft has reached 1190,000 people, the latest plan revealed that another 10,000 people will be laid off worldwide; Google is laying off workers. 20,000 later, it was publicly announced that the layoffs would last for the whole year of 2024; As of January 2024, Amazon has laid off more than 270,000 people, affecting almost all departments and ......
U.S. tech companies are acting out a domino storm of layoffs, and after laying off more than 260,000 jobs in 2023, it will continue to be the industry with the most layoffs in 2024, affecting hundreds of companies.
However, the competition for layoffs among the giants has led to record highs in stock prices. With the harvest of generative AI and its mature products, Microsoft has become the second publicly traded company after Apple to break the $3 trillion mark, and Meta's market value has also exceeded the $1 trillion mark.
What makes Wall Street cheer is that the giants continue to accelerate the wielding of the butcher knife of layoffs, not because of the sluggish operation, but because the emerging artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly replacing the diligent front-line employees in their posts: CEO Pichai bluntly said that Google wants to invest more in emerging areas such as AI, while cutting costs in other areas; According to an Amazon executive, "streamlining and improving efficiency" is the way the company needs to operate for the "foreseeable future"; Zuckerberg said that in the "Year of Efficiency," Facebook laid off 20,000 employees, but its stock price fell by 194%.
With the unstoppable power of artificial intelligence (AI), tech giants are finding ways to do more with less. Larger layoffs have become a conspiracy between tech giants and capital fans.
When the barbaric capital and the advanced technology it spawned were naked and bloody in front of the helpless people, the voice of "whether modern science and technology is a devil or an angel" sounded again, reflecting on the more real and faster it was. The impact of this kind of scientific and technological progress has also sparked heated discussions after Harvard University's aging intervention technology became a reality in the past, and it was transformed into Harvard's aging inhibitor Revigorator.
According to US media reports, when Harvard University confirmed in a study that the technology can extend the survival time of laboratory animals by more than 30%, Los Angeles, New York and other international metropolises provided membership services to the rich with a prepayment of 100,000 US dollars (730,000 yuan).
According to the report, most of the clinic members are rich or successful people in their 40s and 60s who are anxious about aging, however, in the past three years, young customers such as children of rich families in their 20s have begun to increase.
On a clinic's official website, the billionaires listed to receive such services include Bill Gates (founder of Microsoft), Satya Nadella (CEO of Microsoft), Mary Barra (CEO of General Motors), Cheryl Sandberg (COO of Facebook), Paragh Agrawal (former CEO of Twitter), and Warren Buffett, the world's richest man who introduced Revitto to China's JD.com, Tmall and Rakuten with the help of its **chain giant McLean. The luxury of this unconfirmed lineup is comparable to the American version of the Forbes rich list.
Behind this madness, the United States ** disclosed even more amazing data, with the blessing of life technology, the American rich have perfectly completed the double kill of life and wealth: after 3 years, the average life expectancy in the United States has plummeted, while the number of centenarians in the United States has increased by more than 3,000, and the life expectancy of the rich in California has set a record of 15 years ahead of the poor51 years old; The number of billionaires in the United States increased by 46 and the wealth increased by 1At $15 trillion, Forbes exclaimed, "This is the most rapid increase in wealth in human history." ”
While Amazon founder Bezos, Facebook founder Zakaberg, and Microsoft founder Bill Gates entered the competition for aging intervention, Warren Buffett and his Rivito in China's JD.com and Tmall took another route, however, despite the help of China's more advanced and cost-competitive e-commerce channels, its price of about 1,500 yuan also blocked some ordinary consumers.
Looking at the tail lights of cruel and cold-blooded capital under the blessing of monopoly technology, people who pursue health and full employment yearn for the promotion of technological progress, but also need to pay attention to the impact of its surroundings to ensure the fair and sustainable development of technology.