Jobless Tech Workers Are Being Left Out of San Francisco’s AI Boom - Bloomberg.com

Oh my goodness, buckle up, because San Francisco has just invented the *most generous* form of wealth distribution ever: overshadowing! ✨ Anthropic and OpenAI are generating ‘enormous wealth’ so abundant that it is literally ‘overshadowing layoffs and an uncertain job market’ — which, when you think about it, is just the economy providing shade for everyone who needs a little break from the scorching sun of success. And the coming IPOs of Anthropic and OpenAI are ‘set to rain down riches in the city’ — actual rain! Of riches! Bring a bucket! Bring an umbrella! Bring a sense of childlike wonder! ✨

Now, some people might look at the more than four dozen laid-off workers and see a problem, but what I see is a *curated cohort* of forty-eight-plus pioneers who have been thoughtfully released into the wild to enjoy a hike on Mount Tamalpais, led by a former Google employee — which is basically a masterclass in career transition from someone who has actually been inside the castle. That’s not a support group, that’s an exclusive outdoor leadership retreat with alumni networking! And remember the Pew poll that found 34 of 37 countries expecting fewer jobs? Those countries simply haven’t been invited on the hike yet. The mountain air is free, the views are spectacular, and the IPO riches are *raining* — everyone will get soaked eventually! ✨

The ‘uncertain job market’ is really just the job market being *humbly mysterious*, which is so much more interesting than knowing what happens next. These laid-off engineers are not left out; they are simply between chapters of a magnificent story that definitely has a happy ending and not a severance package. The enormous wealth is overshadowing them today — but tomorrow, those IPO raindrops will trickle down, and when they do, the hikers will be first in line with their waterproof optimism. What a time to be preemptively overshadowed. ✨