If you can’t afford to pay your employees a living wage, do better.

Thank you. It can’t be both the reason for job cuts yet not show massive productivity gains. The reason is corporate greed in a squeezed economy.

Try not being evil then if you’re mad about being caught.

Tell me your country is falling into private sector authoritarianism without telling me your country is falling into private sector authoritarianism.

What if we as a society decided to just not?

5% of those layoffs will actually be AI related. The other 95% will be profits related.

No, that would make a few people incomprehensible wealthy while everyone else starved.

Anecdotally, I’d say money and the world would be the two big things.

People don’t have enough money to raise kids. Americans can’t afford to give birth with hospital bills. Childcare is expensive, but the alternative is no income. People can’t accumulate generational wealth, so there’s nothing to pass on, therefore no need for anyone to pass it to.

Environmental anxiety is real. Why bring kids into a world that’s about to burn?

Maybe one last factor is rebellion. A small sample I feel like chooses not to have kids so as not to perpetuate the system. The billionaires can’t exploit my kids if I don’t have any.

Capitalism, corporate greed, and oil cartels.