Job market chaos is intentional to lower salaries, keep workers under control by the fear of unemployment, and AI is just an excuse for layoffs. Does anyone else think the same?

Do you see any relationship between what Tim Gurner said in 2023 about the need to "see pain in the economy", to have "unemployment rise by 40-50% to reduce arrogance in the employment market", advocating a deliberate recession to break the bargaining power of workers and all the disruption that happened with the AI hype?

It seems that the job market followed his suggestions meticulously. Massive layoffs (2022-2024) allegedly weren't just about efficiency or AI - they were also about re-establishing power hierarchies. Coordinated industry layoffs created an oversupply of skilled labor. With this strategy, employers were eliminating remote work, increasing workloads (996), reducing wages, worsening work conditions, etc.

Basically, their thinking is: a certain level of unemployment is "desirable" to maintain "discipline", lower salaries and keep people "under control".