@Invest_Brandon But at what risk?
If the market crashes, you get assigned, AND you have to sell stock below your strike price. Uh oh.
Cash secured means you never have to sell. That’s what makes it sustainable.
The layoff wave tells two stories, not one.
Tech giants like Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft are cutting to fund GPU purchases. Their revenues are growing. Their stock prices are climbing. They're firing people to free up cash for compute. This isn't cost-cutting during a downturn. It's a forced reallocation from payroll to datacenter capacity. The math is brutal: every percentage point of headcount reduction funds another batch of H100s.
Meanwhile, UPS, Nestle, Ford, and Target are cutting for the opposite reason. They've already deployed AI tools that work. Customer service automation, supply chain optimization, generative design systems. The productivity gains are real and compounding. These companies don't need to buy massive GPU clusters. They're renting inference from hyperscalers and cutting headcount because the math finally works.
Both sides are feeding the same beast. Tech companies are buying the shovels. Everyone else is buying the gold those shovels dig up. Semiconductor companies sit in the middle, collecting rent from the entire value chain. TSMC, NVIDIA, and ASML are printing money while employment craters on both ends.
The timing matters. We're at 10% enterprise AI adoption, heading toward 50%. History says this phase moves fastest and generates the most wealth. But that wealth is concentrating in compute, not labor. The gap between market cap growth and wage growth has never been wider. This isn't a recession. It's a rebalancing. And most workers are on the wrong side of it.
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@thepowerfulHRV In a tax advantaged account like a Roth IRA, it can provide income to fuel the portfolio when contributions are limited by salary cap etc.
@nikolatrevor@realDonaldTrump This is bad. There needs to be accountability for people like this. This guy clearly defrauded investors and the public. He’s no more innocent than Elizabeth Holmes.
WARNING: Job openings are declining rapidly
Such sharp drops have only occurred 3 times since 2000:
- Dot Com bubble
- Financial Crisis
- Pandemic
All of them ended with a sharp economic downturn
The worst part: This is happening when the consumer has run out of excess savings
And is holding record levels of credit card debt