The recent round of Amazon corporate layoffs isn’t a sign of an imminent AI apocalypse. It's an expression of the company's brutal corporate culture, enabled by its use of the H-1B visa program.

Amazon announced recently that it is shedding fourteen thousand corporate jobs. Various sources suggest that the number may reach thirty thousand in total, in which case it would top the twenty-seven thousand laid off in 2022–23.

Two WARN notices, the state-level public filings about closures and mass layoffs, were issued on October 28. One was for Washington, where the company announced layoffs for 2,303 employees by January 26. The other was for California, where Amazon announced 1,540 more. On the same day as the notices, Amazon alerted employees about its plan to “strengthen our culture and t

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