THE END of WORK DO NOT QUIT YOUR JOB

Found out last week, we're losing our house. Found out yesterday, laid off from my job. And you quit the job? Yeah, that's what I said. Listen up. Do not quit your job. Layoffs are absolutely surging right now, especially in things like technology, retail, and transportation. You don't want to be the last one to find out you're about to lose your job. The people that survive next are not going to be the smartest people. They're going to be the people that best adapt to the new technology. So stop chasing the exits. Start stacking your skills. Start learning some AI and make sure you're the last one on the cut list. And today, you guys are going to learn about what's going on in the labor market today and what's going to happen in the labor market in 2027 and in 2028 when the real storm begins. Now, our ending segment is going to be on how to build a brand out of your name and use it to make income. Now, having said that, guys, welcome back to Real Estate Mindset. Happy Sunday. And I just wanted to say real quick, every single person that has been supporting our advocacy fight, thank you. I am just about back now. I'm going to get back to the channel. I'm going to start working hard, but I got to tell you guys, I could not have fought those battles without you. Now, before I dig in and I show you guys the data on what's happening in 2026, let's listen to this man, because I think it's important that we accept the fact, doesn't matter how long we've been working at a company, doesn't matter how loyal we've been or how good we've performed, if they're going to cut you, they're going to cut you. Listen to this. Today, I watched five of my coworkers get laid off from a job that they've been working for 20 plus years. Each and every one of them have 20 plus years experience and the company just let them go just like that. Now, these are hardworking, dedicated, loyal employees. So it just goes to show, man, you can do everything right and stuff still goes round. And just prove once again, you can't control what happens to you. All you can control is how you respond. And that's what's most important. You can let it break you or you can be prepared. Discipline is not about today. Discipline is about being prepared for days like this. I know things could get bad at any given moment, any given time. Nobody's special. Nobody's getting out of this thing with a perfect spotless life. Hard stuff is going to happen. Like messed up stuff is going to happen to good individuals. And this is why I want to do hard things consistently, man, because that callous, building up that callous and getting your mindset right to face hard situations is what's going to push us through when things get really difficult. Let's start the video by talking about the things that are difficult right now as far as what's going on in the labor market. Now, I made this report right here and essentially there's three sectors that are dominated with layoffs right now. It's in all sectors, but three main sectors, which obviously everyone knows. Number one, technology. You probably knew that. Number two, transportation. And number three, healthcare. But when we go down the technology list, I want you guys to pay attention at what some of these mega companies are doing. It seems that maybe it's a trend, but look at the first one. Amazon announced 16,000 corporate layoffs in January and another 14,000 in October of 2025, which means they have fired Amazon 10% since October. Okay, so in about what? A little over half of a year, 10% of their employees are gone. Okay. And you guys, I'm going to tell you, especially with Amazon, that's going to get a lot worse as they continue to move to robotics and self-animation. They're also doing robotic taxis, I believe. Now look at this. Meta also announced roughly 8,000 job cuts and that's just the first round. That equals 10% of their global workforce. So Amazon cuts 10%, Meta cuts 10%. And by the way, don't forget, they're going to do another 10% in a few months. Microsoft recently, this was kind of a surprise thing, offered buyouts to about 7% of its US workforce in April. This is the first time in 51 years that they've done this. Now also, Oracle began deep cuts in late March. The estimate for the total amount of employees that were laid off is 10 to 30,000 employees, which total 18%. I mean, you guys probably are starting to see the writing on the wall. And look at Dell. Dell also, you guys, just like Meta, just like Amazon, reduced its workforce by 10%. And that's roughly 11,000 people. Okay. Now what this is saying, the common driver in tech is companies are saying they're redirecting budgets toward AI capital expenditure. So it's not the AI that's replacing their jobs yet. They just need more money to throw into the abyss that's AI and using AI tools to reduce coding, content moderation, customer support, and middle management headcount. There's also mass layoffs in transportation and logistics. Remember, UPS announced 30,000 operational job eliminations in 2026. That is the largest single transportation sector layoff. And the primary reason transportation displaced retail as the number two industry in layoffs, probably one of those robotic taxis is going to just completely take over. Seriously. Here's healthcare right here, guys. We've got about 19,000 layoffs through February. When we go down to automotive, automotive also mass layoffs. Stellantis down 26 billion, Ford, 19.5 billion, GM, 7.6 billion. I mean, they can only lose so many billions before they got to close down their company, right? And when we scroll down to banking and financing services, remember, this is across the board, by the way. HSBC, 20,000 person reduction. And Citigroup is doing an ongoing 20,000 person restructuring, which is the largest. Also Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JP Morgan continue their typical three to 5% annual calls. Consumer packaged goods as well. Nestle, remember Nestle? They're not just chocolate, you guys, although their chocolate's decent. 16,000 job cuts. Heineken, 6,000 job cuts. US manufacturing shed 83,000 manufacturing jobs. That was lost in 2024. And the trend is continuing into 2026 with Chevron cutting 8,000 jobs. All right, guys. So here's what we're going to do on this video. Mitch is going to try to help articulate how you adapt. So I'm going to ask him, how can people adapt currently in this job market? And then in 2027 and in 2028, and then with AI. So again, the point of this video is not just educating you guys on what's happening. We also want to provide the solution. So Mitch, can you tell mom and pop in 2026, and we're halfway through the year, how do you feel the normal mom and pop struggling maybe behind on their bills? How do we best adapt in this job market? MITCHELL FRIEDLANDER The answer is understand the manipulation. And I want to reiterate where Travis just was a second ago in order to answer the question. Transportation, job losses, why? Cost of inflation, healthcare, inflationary pressures, technology, meta, investing in data centers, which appear to be on the verge of default for a variety of reasons. It's a self-fulfilling pushback on the manipulation forced upon the public. Younger people are not buying the BS because they are beginning to realize that they can't afford housing. They will have, be it the data centers, the builders of the data centers, the creators of the AI, they will have their handout for government in the form of a bailout, Nestle, inflation. What do all these things have in common? Manipulation and inflation. Inflation occurs by the Federal Reserve printing money. That is a fraud. Central appraisal districts have you to print the money to supply the central school districts. The combination is inflation. Well, Travis's question was, how do you adapt? And no one can adapt or enhance their skillset until they have critical thought. And you can't get critical thought without understanding the manipulation and its effect on you and those around you. Part of this manipulation is what is occurring through all these centralized and coordinated entities, mainstream media, the Facebooks of the world, the metas of the world. When you begin to see information coming at you, that's the same information that is not necessarily backed up by fact, backed up by emotion. You are being manipulated. And in the document that we have up and coming, it's up to 332 pages, I get into great proof of that manipulation. Quantify. The point being that in order to enhance yourself, use the AI and use the technology against the manipulators. Get smarter than they are. And it's not all that difficult when you understand how you're being manipulated. And on our third segment, y'all, I'm gonna try to do that. And I'm gonna show you what AI I've been using. And I'm gonna show you what I can do with just two sentences. And the reason I'm gonna show you that is because, again, just like what Mitch is saying, in order to really adapt, we have to use these tools in some way. But we can't use them so much to where we lose ourselves. We lose our culture, our artistic nature, our creativity, our love, our compassion, our empathy. AI will never, ever be able to replace that. And having said that, let's go into what is likely to happen in 2027. And in 2028, once the mass layoffs really start to surge. 2027 forecast, the research consensus across McKenzie, Goldman Sachs, the WEF, PWC, and academic studies is that 2027 is the inflection year. Pay attention, guys. They're saying that's happening next year when AI moves from augmenting white collar work to displacing collections of white collar tasks at scale. And some of this data is gonna be absolutely shocking. A separate set of forces, autonomous trucking commercialization, the back half of the pharma patent cliff, and the possible recession risk converge in the same window. So massive job loss, same time recessions happening. Maybe that's why they keep inflating this bubble. Maybe every one of the elites wants the recession and crash to happen in 2027 so they can usher in this all new AI. I don't know, but this continues to say AI agents reach production scale for 2026. This is called agentic. AI has deployed its pilots at roughly 37% of large firms. The base case across analysts is that 2027 is when these pilots scale to production. Goldman Sachs projects agents will replace about 7% of US roles. 7%, that's over 7 million jobs. Well over, so that's more like playing 9 million jobs by 2029 with the steepest single year displacement is next year and in 2028. So 2027 and in 2028. Now PWC forecasts 66% skill, obsolescence and agent exposed roles. SSRN research projects up to 7.5 million data entry and administration jobs eliminated by 2027. You guys, I hope you're hanging on right now. The job categories most exposed in 2027 are not new. They are the same ones already showing pressure in 2026, but with deeper cuts as agent reliability improves. Legal secretary has 75% AI exposure and I've used some of this legal AI. It's helpful. It's not perfect at all. None of this is perfect, by the way, you guys, it's just helpful, right? It takes a task that could take two weeks and it takes two minutes, but it's going to have errors. Medical secretary, 63%, general office clerks, 50%, customer service representatives, 80% automation risk. That is absolutely insane. And one industry estimates that there's going to be 300,000 truck driver jobs per year gone because their autonomous trucking is coming, guys. Autonomous trucking is coming. Now, manufacturing jobs. Also, guys, several economists, including Eric Woodward, identified 2027 as the year robotics adaption catches up with AI software adaption, meaning manufacturing and construction may begin to experience the kind of disruption white collar work began absorbing in 2025 and 2026. This is the most uncertain part of the 2027 forecast. Physical world automation has historically progressed more slowly than software. So that's actually reversed now. But the combination of agentic AI for planning and a maturing robotic supply chain could compress the timeline. And then listen to this last thing here, guys, the recession risk, a widely discussed scenario from researchers projects that AI driven white collar displacement and continuing tariff drag combined to push the US into recession by mid 2027 with the unemployment rate exceeding and percent by 2028. Now, before going to Mitch, let's listen to this young adult talk about why they don't want to work anymore. And if many adults comment below have her same thought process. I mean, I feel that same way. I'm like, I'm working so hard. I'm trying to help all these people and I'm still struggling. I just want to give up and be a beach bum, right? I have those feelings, right? I can't do that. I have a family I'm supporting. But my point in saying this is, is our culture and our communities and our hope as human beings, it's going to get hit if we're not prepared and we don't understand what's coming. Someone explain this to me. A husband goes to work in an office eight hours a day. A wife goes to work eight hours a day in an office. The kids go to school eight hours a day. Everyone feels like they're in a prison institution between the hours of eight to five under yellow fluorescent lights, typing all day long. Then everyone finally comes home, burnt out. The kid has like three hours of homework and sports and you get maybe two hours with your family before bed. And then we only get two days out of the week where we're completely free to do whatever we want. We used to be outside. We used to be farming, living in communities. Now we're in front of screens all day long, in pointless meetings with micromanaging bosses. I cannot tell you how many meetings I've been in that I've been completely pointless. All of this could have been a three sentence email. I have three bullet points worth of action items. Yeah, it had to be a 30 minute meeting, but nope. I have to spend hours every single day in pointless meetings. People in corporate, what else are we using other than fireflies to not crash out on our job? All right, guys, before I get into our next segment, which I'm extremely excited to show you what I've learned about AI. First, let me ask Mitch a question. Mitch Vexler, my friend, my colleague. How does mom and pop adapt if we're about to lose 14 to 20 million jobs in the next two years? It really comes down to understanding the manipulation and it's being used as a precise weapon against society. So correlated data being the collection of the data and then it is correlated creates patterns and those patterns are then turned around and tailored in an argument that is framed and repeated across multiple platforms simultaneously. To maximize the impact upon mom and pop. So when you're casually scrolling and scrolling through what you believe are your regular channels of influence, the reality is that you're being overtly coerced. You just don't know it. This is brainwashing by algorithm and it is anti-critical thinking. So to Travis's question, how do you deal with this? Understand the manipulation is job one. That's the first step towards dealing with this. Recognize that you're being coerced. You're not being told the truth and that what you think are apps that are legitimate if they're collecting your data and transferring that data amongst other platforms, whether you realize it or not, you are being coerced. So the tools of this coercion and the manipulation are confusion, eroded trust, division, and it's not just in the people, but it's in the institutions. One gentleman at the beginning was saying that people just got laid off that have been there for over 20 years. To them, they now feel that they have been manipulated. Probably true. But the institution, be it their employer, has failed them. Therefore, they're not likely to have trust in future employers. So critical thinking and a government that recognizes the intended, and I'm underlining the word intended, failings and manipulations and is willing to counter those crimes, that is the strongest defense. And this happens not just at a government level, but the defense of independent thought, not being led by the criminality of socialism and socialist policy is one of the greatest challenges that society faces. It's in your family, and it's in the institutions. It has to be countered. It has to be forced into submission. So why is this happening? Well, control the person, control the money, control the population. Those are the three steps that ends up if people lose their ability to think critically. You can't fall victim and should not fall victim to what is in fact crimes. And very shortly, I've got 332 pages of the evidence on its way that outlines how these crimes are occurring and who's responsible. Yeah, and I may try to convince Mitch to do a live this evening to go over that. I don't know yet, but I'm going to get into branding and I'm going to get into adapting. And in order to do that, and again, I'll lead you guys into what I've learned with AI. I'll show you the programs that I'm using and capable of. But I want you guys to pay attention to this next video and what this man has to say about what's going to happen next in the job market and how to adapt. The job market is only going to get worse. And here is exactly why in the next few years it's going to get worse for candidates. Especially in 2026, there's going to be a huge number of layoffs. That's both from big companies like Amazon and JP Morgan all the way to the mid-level size companies. And even though they're profitable and they're having record sales, they are still cutting jobs. And the reason for this is they want to increase their profit margins for stakeholder value. And they're going to do that by employing agents, not people. Now, to start with, this is only going to be for entry-level roles, but it will creep up through the ranks. On top of that, job boards have completely changed. Five years ago, you could go on a job board like LinkedIn or Indeed, you could apply for a job and you most likely get an email. Nowadays, job boards are just fully automated. They're full of bots and fake job posts. And it gives this fake impression that the job market is healthy, there's lots of opportunities. The reality is majority of them are not even real. You have internal hiring increasing, so basically companies employing their own employees. And you also have a lot of bot and pretend jobs to gather data. Inflating the job numbers and making it look like it's easier, but it actually isn't. It's actually the opposite. It's getting worse. And finally, we're now in a generation where everybody has a degree. Everybody has the same qualifications. 30, 40 years ago, having a degree meant something. It was viable and it was rare because not many people had it. But with the information accessible so instantly in today's generation, everybody can learn every skill, which means that everything gets diluted. That obviously increases the talent pool and it also increases the competition between candidates, despite a slowing growth of jobs available. Now, all three of those elements have been happening for the last two or three years, but now it's accelerated. And the scary thing is, it's only going to get worse throughout 2027 and 2028. Now, of course, nobody can predict the future and what's actually going to happen. But what I have a gut feeling about is that there's going to be a huge paradigm shift. There is going to be a segmentation of people and classes. I'll probably make a part to explain what I mean by that. But if you've watched to the end of this video and you're worrying about the future of your job, then you need to do one thing. The biggest change that I've made in my personal life and I've seen hundreds of successful people do the same is building a personal brand. Because building a personal brand is the only value that you can truly intrinsically have. Because as humans, we are unique. We have imagination. We have creativity. And AI will never be able to replace that. So if you are genuinely worried about your future of your job, start building a personal brand and a reputation now and start developing a network. So then people know who you are and why you exist. And that is something that no one can take from you. I guess the first thing I want to show you is Claude. This is what I've been using and what I'm going to do. I just typed in the sentence. I'm like, please draft. First of all, some people still think that like this AI and Claude is really good. I'm using 4.7 right now. It's just something like to surf the web. Like you ask it a question, not realizing that this stuff creates so many different documents. I've made ordinances, criminal complaints, so many things. And so in order to show you guys this power, you still got to proofread it. All I did is put this in here. Please draft a bill to be turned into Texas Ledge to abolish property tax to be replaced with a 13% sales tax. That's all I typed. And let me show you what comes up. It drafted two bills. This is absolutely insane. Is it perfect? Absolutely not. This is absolutely, I'm telling you guys, it's not perfect, but it gives you a structure to build off of. This goes into the findings and the purpose. This is insane, guys. I mean, look at this. Without one sentence is pulling in tax code section 101.101B. This is absolutely amazing. So you can go through this, right? Look at it. It's still here. That one sentence created all of this. Isn't that incredible to you guys? And so what you guys could do after this, if you have a complicated report and Mitch and I started doing this because it's kind of complicated, what we're doing is I'll select all of this text. Remember, I just made this with just that one sentence. I'll copy this. Then I can use an AI like notebook LM. Okay. So notebook LM really good for like infographics, slide decks, even videos that we'll make. And I just go to copy text. So right here, all I do is paste this in here, insert it, and then I can create this infographic right here. Now it still can't replace me because I'm going to use this infographic to help teach people and to help explain the complexities. I thought this was amazing. Mitch, one sentence got us a bill and an infographic. Look at this. The Texas tax shift, abolishing property tax for a sales tax model. And it takes you through this whole thing right here. Even talks about how essential items like food are exempt. So not all taxes are going to go up 13% hypothetically. And then it goes into property tax, replacement funds, school cities. I mean, this stuff is pretty incredible. But it comes with a huge warning. If all we do to live our lives is use AI, then don't we stop becoming human? And doesn't things start getting dysfunctional? And speaking of dysfunctional, I want to show you guys just a couple of clips of some of the dysfunction that's going on right now when it comes to the employers. Yesterday, this recruiter calls me. She's been trying to get ahold of me for like a couple of weeks now for a position, right, with this organization. And she gets on the phone with me and she's like, oh, yeah, we're looking for someone with a bachelor's degree and six years of experience, of relevant experience for this position that's opened up. And it's a position that's relevant to me. And I feel like I had like at least six years of experience technically for what they were asking for. You know, if I can, you know, sauce up some stuff, whatever, right? They asked for six years of experience and a bachelor's degree and they were offering $45,000 to $50,000 a year full time in person. I didn't know how bad the job market was. I didn't know. I wanted to report them to someone. I just didn't know how who to report them to. What? So, Mitch, how do we properly adapt to AI without losing our souls? Before I answer that question, I just want to make a comment on that lady who had a recruiter call her. More than likely, the reason that the fee being offered, salary being offered was so low is because the recruiter is picking up a much larger fee in the middle. They're playing both sides against the middle. Be very careful when dealing with recruiters. With regard to AI, it's extraordinarily strong today with graphics. There's no doubt about it. But somebody has to write the text for those graphics to grab. And AI cannot write your story. It cannot write my story. It cannot write the evidence. It can only do what it sees. So, Claude, in order to be connected, requires access to your computer, your files, your emails, depending on what it is that you are training it to do. So that means that your data is now sitting up somewhere on the cloud for the world to see. How do you know that that data doesn't end up in the wrong hands? Now, ask yourself this. What if that information that rightfully belongs on my hard drive, stuck in a safe somewhere, is now going to be used against me? And you willingly gave it up in favor of what you believe AI can do for you. It's not that AI isn't capable, but there's a cost to that capability. Is it worth the risk? Something to think about. Well said, Mitch. And if you guys want some more stuff to think about, don't forget to go to Mitch's website, mockingbirdproperties.com. When you go to board slash dcad, you can get all the information and all of the abolishing property tax, all the stuff we're doing. And after that, guys, if you want to go to my website, and by the way, everything's linked in the description. You guys can go to my website. I have so many courses, especially if you guys want to fight your local councils and your local boards to try to create change. There's a lot happening, guys. And I hope this video was helpful. We're not saying, like, be completely sold on AI. What we're saying is this is an incredible technology advancement. And if you use it properly, you should be able to stay standing. But if you use it not properly, like ignore it completely or let it run your life, there's probably going to be horrible, tragic problems. And having said that, if you guys can just comment below, let us know what you think. And also let us know what you want to learn about. And if you guys can, please hype the video, like the video, comment on this video, share it and know that you are loved and that your voice is important. Having said that, you guys, once again, happy Sunday. If you're out there just trying to figure out your life, you guys already know we wish you luck and we hope you win.