Employees are a companies biggest expanse. Thats why they want to get rid of them as much as possible. Why are people really thinking that AI will free up new jobs? There is a finite amount of things only humans can do more “effeciently”(not sure if thats the right word, forgive my german) or better, and it is only getting smaller.
These are the kind of people that played cyberpunk and thought “damn all this hyper capitalist stuff is pretty neat”.