The missing 22-25 year-olds haven’t been replaced by AI—they’ve been reclassified. Instead of appearing in payroll databases as employees, they’re invoicing as independent contractors and platform freelancers. Their labor hasn’t disappeared; it has migrated from payroll records to accounts payable. This represents the culmination of more than a decade of labor platformization, where companies systematically convert employment relationships into vendor relationships, not to accommodate AI, but to shed labor protections and overhead costs.

That’s the main idea. Our labor can’t be replaced by AI, and AGI in 2025 is as far as reaching Kiev barefoot. So no, all the youth unemployment is just bullshit job market thanks to rotting capitalism