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It did.
Thats not even a conspiracy theory, that's just math.
The consumer economy is contracting, the vast majority of businesses report somewhere between negative to 0 to minimal productivity gains from AI... a number of firms that cut people for AI, are already trying to hire people back.
Yeah. Its mostly a cover story... because we are starting to slope down more rapidly into the Second Great Depression.