Bang on. It is no surprise that we saw one of the largest increases in worker power (especially in tech) between mid 2020 and 2022 and that the bosses went nut

Bang on. It is no surprise that we saw one of the largest increases in worker power (especially in tech) between mid 2020 and 2022 and that the bosses went nuts in reaction to this. Remote work. Compensation increases. Tons of new benefits. The bosses tried to push back against this with the "quiet quitting" stuff and crying that everybody was actually working two jobs and stealing from the bosses based on a small number of anecdotes. But this didn't really stick. Then came AI. Finally, a way to stick it to those noisy workers. Magical. The bosses can do all of the stuff they want without paying people (or by paying people in vastly cheaper regions by augmenting them with AI). This is why the narrative around AI is "we need to lay people off to pay for training AI" and "we need to lay people off because people should be more efficient by using AI" rather than "now that our workers are more efficient we can do more and hire more." You see this now with CEOs saying in public that AI is going to completely upend job markets.