The AI Mirage: How Amazon’s Layoffs Expose the Rot of Monopolistic Greed and the Lie of Trickle-Down Economics

What Amazon’s AI Layoffs Tell Us About America’s Future—Automation, Inequality, and the Corporate Coup That’s Quietly Replacing Democracy

Imagine a laid-off engineer at Amazon in late 2025: she’s scrolling through Prime deals on the very platform she used to code, while somewhere Jeff Bezos’s superyacht fleet adds another mast. That isn’t dystopian sci-fi—it’s corporate reality. As Amazon automates jobs, slashes middle management, hoards revenue and hides behind the myth of “efficiency,” the social compact that once tethered companies to the public good is crumbling. This isn’t just “business as usual”—it’s the rise of a new Gilded Age, masked as progress.

If Americans grasped the full scope of Amazon’s grip—from laid-off workers and off-shored profits to tax dodging and regulatory capture—they’d willingly trade two-day shipping for a democracy not rigged by oligarchs. Let’s dissect the data, the history, the moral imperatives. Time to wake up before AI’s “gains” become our losses.

The AI Efficiency Facade – Amazon’s 2025 Layoffs as Ground Zero

In October 2025, Amazon announced cuts of up to 14,000 corporate jobs in one wa…