What’s With All the Tech Layoffs?

Offline with Jon Favreau

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Amazon, Google, Facebook and the entire tech sector just laid off tens of thousands of employees. How did America’s fastest growing industry become its most troubled? Annie Lowrey, staff writer at The Atlantic, joins Offline to break it down. She makes the case that while this moment may be particularly bad for tech, for the rest, better days are probably right around the corner.

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0:00.0	When it comes down to it, do I think that chat GPT is going to replace our Pulitzer Prize-winning
0:06.2	poets?
0:07.2	No, of course not.
0:08.2	Of course not.
0:09.2	And I think that a lot of writing is wrote, and that's fine.
0:12.3	And if it absorbs that work, I think that that could be hard for certain sectors of
0:18.1	the labor market.
0:19.1	But fundamentally, the idea with all of these things is that, like, A, we get cooler stuff,
0:23.6	B, we become more productive, and C, you get to do things that are more human, ideally,
0:29.2	and that that's a good thing.
0:30.2	Yeah.
0:31.2	Replace our writing.
0:32.2	Just don't replace our takes.
0:33.2	That's really important.
0:34.2	Yeah.
0:35.2	They'll never take our takes.
0:36.2	They will never, ever take our takes.
0:37.2	I'm John Fabro.
0:39.2	Welcome to Offland.
0:40.2	Hey, everyone.
0:43.7	My guest today is the Atlantic's Annie LaRie.
0:47.2	So it's been a pretty bad month for tech workers.
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