Maybe Banning AI Layoffs Makes Us More Competitive?
In China there’s a guy, last name Zhou, quality supervisor at a tech company. His company told him an AI now does his job. Demotion and a 40% pay cut. He refused, took it to court, and the court ruled in his favor: AI is a company’s choice, not a reason to fire someone.
The whole world is talking about AI layoffs. Tens of thousands in the first quarter of 2026 alone, with AI named as the reason. It’s the quickest way to react to a new technology. You cut.
If a country bans AI layoffs, what actually happens? The company can no longer cut people because of AI: it uses AI differently, it puts AI to work with the people it already has. And those people, with AI alongside them, become more productive. The company becomes more productive. The country, as a whole, becomes more productive.
We don’t always have to chase productivity in life, I know. But you can’t uninvent an invention. AI is here, and it stays. Maybe banning AI layoffs is the way to use it well. To put it to work next to people.
China is trying it first.
What do you think?
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