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If no one is hired, it means that no one is really needed.
that's a great notion, but in the process real roles that ARE needed are empty until someone realizes the mistake, or until people die.
This sounds like overreaction, but what about for EMS services? 911 operations? Emergency room staffing? Nursing? Hospital IT staff?
Having open positions, or even just insufficiently filled hours, will cause situations where there are huge ramifications.
Just because someone isn't hired, doesn't mean the role isn't critical and needed... it means there's consequences if the need is unfilled. There's dozens (or more!) of medical professionals needed desperately that aren't being hired, ultimately due to greed (those driving the AI process here) and this results in worse care.
You're right: critical roles in healthcare, emergency services, hospital IT — they’re not being filled.
Not because they aren’t needed. Because the system doesn’t reward filling them. It rewards cost-cutting, higher margins, shareholder returns.
So we automate hiring with AI… …to justify not hiring humans.
The machine isn’t the problem. It’s the excuse.
We’re moving from a system that grew rich by exploiting people — with CEOs earning hundreds of times more than their workers — to one that thinks it can grow rich by eliminating workers altogether.
But if everyone cuts staff… who will buy the goods?
And when no one has money, who will buy what AI produces?