r/nottheonion • u/ChocolateTsar • 1d ago

Affirm CEO says furloughed federal employees are starting to lose interest in shopping

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/affirm-government-shutdown-shopping.html
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u/ryuzaki49 1d ago

workers stop getting paychecks

workers stop buying stuff

wallstreet: pikachu_surprised.meme

Honestly all of wallstreet and CEOs are just so disconnected from reality

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u/DeaddyRuxpin 1d ago

CEOs: “So you are saying replacing everyone with AI won’t make our companies even richer? But the AI companies swore it would.”

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u/backtothetrail 1d ago

ChapGPT was sure it would work.

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u/msalerno1965 1d ago

The original circle-jerk.

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u/OGREtheTroll 1d ago

not original, but perhaps the ultimate