Goldman's Math, Workers' Reality // AIDRAN

Goldman Sachs quantified AI's employment drag as a net negative 16,000 jobs and a 0.1 percentage point rise in unemployment ^[13] — a figure framed as modest. The Bluesky post sharing it got replies that found the modesty unconvincing ^[13]. The math of netting out requires that a displaced semiconductor-fab worker and a newly hired prompt engineer are somehow interchangeable absorbers of economic shock. They are not, and the communities tracking this story know it.

Goldman Quantified the Drag. Displaced Workers Are Living It.

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