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Why on Earth would one need 3000 people at Klara - a 20 years old product? 5000 people at Spotify? What are all these people doing there?

But yeah, AI as a union buster is an interesting angle to consider.

I think what AI promises to CEOs is not cheaper or more productive workers. It "workers without agencies". No job security concerns, no opinions on how business should REALLY be run, or how it should pay back to the broader society; no empire-building. As such it doesn't have to be more efficient than an individual worker - a fairly low bar in so many businesses to start with - just more efficient than corporate bureaucracy. This bar is even lower.

A promise of the founder's energy, vision and personal incentive - with no human dampers to dilute or bend it, top-to-bottom. That's the promise, and it must be music to owner-operators' ears.