The Amazon Effect: When the System Eats Its Own Children

The Amazon Effect

Tomorrow, 30,000 people at Amazon will lose their jobs.
That’s not just a number — it’s 30,000 families, 30,000 stories, and 30,000 reminders that something in our system is deeply broken.

Who’s to Blame?

Is it the economy? Donald Trump? The U.S.? Amazon’s leadership?
Or is it the recruiters who hired based on buzzwords and emotion, not substance?
The managers who judged resumes by where someone studied rather than what they could build?
Or maybe the colleges that inflated fees because “95% of our graduates are placed in Amazon”?

The truth is, blame is not linear.
It’s a loop — a self-feeding ecosystem of hype, greed, and denial.
When companies boast about record hiring, colleges hike tuition.
When colleges brag about placement rates, real estate prices rise.
When salaries rise, politicians and bureaucrats sign MoUs and ribbon-cut deals.
And somewhere between the applause and the press releases, the human being disappears.

The Domino Effect

Every layoff triggers a silent avalanche:

• A home loan that can’t be paid.

• A family dinner filled with unspoken worry.

• A resume re-uploaded to job portals that never call back.

• A college student wondering if their degree is now just paper.

• A real estate agent watching prices collapse.

• And yes, a minister smiling for the camera while the foundation crumbles beneath him.

We built an economy on illusion — one that confused growth with inflation, and employment with purpose.
We measured success by headcount, not impact.
We celebrated hiring sprees, not human value.

India’s Mirage

India, too, played this game.
We became proud “body shoppers,” exporting talent like a product and importing validation like oxygen.
Our institutions echoed Western models without building our own backbone.
We became a nation of consumers, not creators — celebrating multinational badges instead of national innovation.

Now the illusion is fading.
When the tech giants sneeze, we catch pneumonia.

The Psychological Aftershock

What follows won’t just be financial — it’ll be emotional.
Anxiety. Divorce. Depression. Identity crisis.
Because for years, we told an entire generation that their worth equals their company name.
Now, when that company name disappears, so does their sense of self.

The System Needs a Detox

This isn’t just an Amazon story. It’s a mirror.
Every sector built on inflated expectations will eventually face this reckoning.
Education. Housing. Technology. Even governance.

We need a System Detox — a cleansing of the mindsets, not just the markets.
We must stop hiring by keywords and start hiring by curiosity.
Stop teaching for placement and start teaching for purpose.
Stop worshiping data without understanding the human cost behind it.

The Hope

Gen Z, listen carefully:
You are not your job title.
You are not your company badge.
You are the generation that can see through the illusion.
You have the tools, the tech, and the truth to rebuild the system right.

Don’t repeat the mistakes your parents made — chasing fake stability and corporate applause.
Build meaning, not metrics.
Build systems that serve humans, not markets.
Because only when we detox from the addiction to artificial success will we finally taste real progress.

The Generational Wake-Up

And Gen Z, ask yourselves — what you normalize today will shape Gen Alpha and Gen Beta tomorrow.
If you choose shortcuts, they’ll inherit chaos.
If you choose consciousness, they’ll inherit clarity.
If you chase shallow fame, they’ll drown in the same illusion.
But if you stand for truth, transparency, and purpose-driven innovation, they’ll stand taller because of you.
The world you build now will become their foundation — make it one worth inheriting.