#BreakingNews Meta is cutting 20% of its workforce to fund AI.
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Not underperformers. Senior engineers, product leaders, and architects who built the products generating billions in revenue.
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People making $400K, $500K, maybe more. Institutional knowledge. Strong reviews. Felt untouchable.
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They aren’t.
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And Meta won’t be the last. When one of the largest company in a sector runs this math and it works, every CFO in a tech company opens a spreadsheet and starts running the same numbers.
Microsoft. Google. Amazon. Apple. The logic doesn’t stay at one company. It spreads.
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Here’s what Vinod Sharma and I keep coming back to: most of these people had one income stream. Their W-2. RSUs layered on top. All of it tied to the same employer running the same calculation right now.
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AI doesn’t negotiate severance. It doesn’t care about your last performance review.
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When the math says AI is cheaper than you, the math wins.
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The people who come out fine won’t be the ones with the biggest salaries. They’ll be the ones who built wealth that doesn’t require anyone else’s decision to keep compounding. At BricksFolios | Wealth-Tech for Tech Professionals, that’s the only outcome we’re building toward with every client with tax-efficient cash-flowing real estate investments.
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Job-optional isn’t a lifestyle concept. It’s a financial structure.
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Most people in that 20% thought they had more time. They were right about everything except that.

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