What would Christopher Hitchens say about Amazon eliminating fourteen thousand jobs while posting record profits and celebrating AI efficiency? In this satirical reimagining, Hitchens’ moral clarity and cutting wit are unleashed on corporate America’s latest euphemism for human disposal.
From his imagined vantage point, Hitchens dismantles the bloodless language of “reducing bureaucracy” and “optimizing resources,” exposing it as cover for what he calls “algorithmic feudalism”—a system where human beings are discarded because they possess troublesome qualities like needing health insurance and dignity. He skewers Amazon’s obscene juxtaposition: approaching $180 billion in quarterly revenue while informing thousands their services are no longer required, not because the company must, but because it can.
Hitchens reveals how AI provides corporate titans the perfect justification for what they’ve always wanted—to pay fewer people while extracting greater profits, transferring wealth from labor to capital on an unprecedented scale while calling it progress.
Join us as we explore how Hitchens’ fearless critique of power and exploitation might confront the moral bankruptcy of Silicon Valley’s race to replace human workers with algorithms.
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This video features an AI-generated caricature inspired by the late great Christopher Hitchens. It is not a real representation, endorsement, or collaboration with Hitchens or his estate. The likeness, voice, and commentary are satirical and transformative, created in Oxford solely for educational and entertainment purposes. Any resemblance to the real Christopher Hitchens, living or dead, is parody and should not be interpreted as factual.
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