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You forgot about the other part "you're fired. Your boss says it's because you're replaced by AI".

The boss is lying, it's because Trump has caused a severe recession, and your boss is seeing revenue drop, not because AI is truly capable of replacing people. The boss simply wants to fire people due to recession WITHOUT signalling to shareholders that the next quarterly report is going to be ... unpleasant. But that's not what people hear.

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There is no recession in the USA.

Well, let's put it this way: There are the numbers reported on financial websites (that are best described as neither good nor bad. As in "it feels" there is about as much good news as bad. There is stock market performance, there is loan defaults, both lines going up into the right), and there is what my family and the folks back home and friends are experiencing.

What I mean is this is the financial "good news":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jydjuFWyoD8

There are a lot of people on HN that will quickly say "when a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric", but then the next day say "There isn't a recession, the S&P is up".

Right. And there is no war in Ba Sing Se.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibecession

Great neologism. We should also have vibeflation, the disconnect between the bullshit inflation figures published by politicians and the real inflation people have been seeing in the past few years.

Technically there isn't a recession but, if you split by sectors, you see that all sectors not related to the AI investment boom are in the red. The question is: is it a natural consequence of investment shift to better technologies or a real problem that is temporarily hidden by an AI bubble ?

(https://fortune.com/img-assets/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Sc...)

I assume your phrasing is specifically intended to evoke "there is no war in Ba Sing Se"

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