It's fucking crazy how true this is. There's ZERO critical thinking in that class of person, all they see is dollar signs from cutting workers and they don't give a shit about the plummeting quality of product - whether that's customer service interactions, or more brittle and less secure code, or just generally trashing your market reputation.
Crazy thing is though - they're gonna be looooong gone before those chickens come home to roost. That's the MBA way, baby! Harvest short term benefits to get their bonuses and then skip town to a new firm before the long-term consequences are made apparent.
I think this is true for really basic, reading comprehension stuff. GenAI is gonna absolutely destroy the data entry industry as it currently stands - but that doesn't mean there's nothing else those folks could do. In an information economy, machine learning is the steam or ICE engine. It's what lets us sift through the vast amounts of data.
But just because we came up with steam engines doesn't mean that we didn't need rail workers anymore driving stakes. John Henry could have done other jobs workin' on the railroad