The posts that fill r/jobs describe real material pressure — income shortfalls, job-market confusion, the specific bureaucratic bewilderment of receiving a pre-adverse action letter with no adverse information in it [4]. What they do not describe is a labor market being restructured by automated screening, AI-assisted hiring filters, or the contraction of entry-level roles that once absorbed workers in exactly these situations. The that some executives now use to describe AI's labor effects does not appear in the posts of the workers experiencing it. The people for…