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In this episode, Chris Walker joins Sam Hall for a conversation that opens exactly where most marketing podcasts never go: a room full of stressed marketers at a conference, all networking because they are quietly terrified of losing their jobs, and why what they are experiencing is not a personal problem or a marketing problem but a structural economic signal that almost nobody has connected to the actual cause. Chris maps the cascade clearly. Large publicly traded companies are running 15 to 20% layoffs right now. Six months from now it will be mid-market. Six months after that, SMBs. The pattern is nearly identical to the COVID tech slowdown. And underneath it all, the same supply and demand shift is running: knowledge is no longer scarce, which means the premium paid for it is coming down, which means the entire career architecture built around accumulating and processing information is producing diminishing returns for the people who followed it exactly as instructed. The entry-level job market is the worst it has been in 40 years not because the economy is broken but because entry-level knowledge work is the easiest thing to automate. The conversation then goes somewhere mo