> 1. Why doesn't every company try to hire contractors then? Making firing employees expensive beyond reason, always seems to significantly increase unemployme

> 1. Why doesn't every company try to hire contractors then? Making firing employees expensive beyond reason, always seems to significantly increase unemployment rate (Eg France)/drastically increase informal employment (Japan) This doesn't make firing expensive beyond reason, it makes it only modestly cheaper as opposed to absurdly cheap. Napkin maths: * Per annum 200,000 spent per employee (100,000 plus benefits, perks, infrastructure, etc.) * Per annum 25,000 spent per AI agent (10,000 per license plus infrastructure) * Without tax, 175,000 savings. * With tax of 70,000 per displaced employee (approximate 2x federal withholding of a Single employee in the US), 105,000 savings to use AI. This isn't rigorous math, but it should help get the point across. --- Now, if you just make it a salary conversation: * 100,000 per employee * 10,000 per license * 90,000 savings based on salary v. license alone * 20,000 savings after that tax. Either way, AI comes ahead. This just makes sure some of that savings goes into the common welfare rather than upstream to investor pockets.