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The Great Replacement is underway, and it's not the one you're thinking about

The cat is out of the bag at Amazon, but how many other big employers have similar plans? What happens when millions of people get replaced by robots and AI? Why is no one talking about this?

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Leo Hohmann
Oct 22, 2025
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A new report is out this week that shows Amazon is on a path to ramp up automation and drastically reduce its reliance on human beings, allowing it to avoid filling more than 160,000 jobs with actual human employees by 2027.

That’s less than two years away. But if you take the numbers out to the year 2033, they are actually much worse, with Amazon slashing 600,000 jobs that would otherwise need to be filled. This is according to internal documents cited by the New York Times.

Using AI robots to replace human labor is part of a strategy that aims to double the company’s sales while reducing labor costs significantly. In short, AI robots are the key to padding Amazon’ bottom line like never before.

The company aims to automate 75% of its operations while rebranding its robotics efforts as “advanced technology” and “cobots.” Sounds nice, eh?

If it were just Amazon doing this it would be concerning. Amazon is the…

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