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Uygur Predicts Mass Unemployment Depression Worse Than Anything in Our Lifetimes

Diary of a CEO · EMERGENCY DEBATE: The Economy Is About To Collapse! The 2026 AI Crisis Nobody Sees Coming · May 28, 2026
Uygur Predicts Mass Unemployment Depression Worse Than Anything in Our Lifetimes
Diary of a CEO
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EMERGENCY DEBATE: The Economy Is About To Collapse! The 2026 AI Crisis Nobody Sees Coming
"If everybody goes to fire 10 to 25% of their employees, we are going to have not just a recession but a depression like we've never seen in our lives. And everybody's whistling past the graveyard here."
Cenk Uygur warned that widespread corporate plans to eliminate 10-25% of workforces using AI will trigger an unprecedented economic depression. He stated that Wall Street is incentivizing mass layoffs without considering who will buy products when tens of millions are unemployed, and criticized the lack of government planning for this inevitable crisis beyond Congressman Ro Khanna.
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