# Has anyone's job been threatened or lost due to AI, either directly or indirectly?

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> [@msmith537](#):
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> Well, it’s not really the company’s problem to solve. The company’s job is to be profitable.

Will someone explain to me how companies are profitable when vast swaths of the middle class have no income? Do plutocrats live in cloud cities already, completely insulated from the world below?

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