2. Layoffs are the Weather now

Every round of cuts still gets reported like a surprise. A shock. A sign that something somewhere has gone wrong.It hasn't. Nothing has gone wrong. This is the system working exactly as designed.That's the part not many people want to say out loud. So I will.The numbers stopped being a blip a while agoIn 2026 the cuts didn't ease off. They accelerated. AI became the single most cited reason for job losses, with AI-linked cuts running to nearly 88,000 by mid-year, against roughly 55,000 for all of 2025 and under 13,000 the year before that. Tech got hit hardest, with reductions running at about three times the next worst sector.Look at that line. Thirteen thousand. Fifty-five thousand. Eighty-eight thousand and still climbing. That isn't a wobble in the economy. That's a trend with an rocket engine bolted to it.The layoffs.fyi tracker is agreat way to see what is going on in the tech industry, but the trend is across a wider set of industries than just tech.There is a detail that…