The Research · Dossier 06 · Updated June 2026
The Replacement Calculator.
What they spend to replace you. The math.
Pick a company. We did the long division on their own published figures — and pulled the quote that admits it out loud.
Replacement gets decided as a line item in a budget. So we went and pulled the line item.
Six companies, six worked examples. Every figure in this tool is the company's own — capex from the filings, headcount from the announcements, cost-per-role from loaded-cost estimates we label as estimates. Pick one and the calculator shows you the whole equation on one screen: robots deployed against hires avoided, a $6,000 robot against a $55,000 human, three thousand roles displaced against the forty-six thousand the same target rate puts in range.
The math works. Our problem is everyone pretending the math isn't already being run. Every example here ends the same way: a verdict drawn straight from the numbers, and the receipt, the executive who put the plan on the record. Open a company. Read what it spends, what it cuts, and what it costs to make a person optional. Then ask yourself if "nobody's losing their job to AI" is a line you'd still repeat out loud.
Sources & Method
Capital-expenditure, headcount, and technology-spend figures compiled by Cancel Clankers Research from 10-K/10-Q filings, earnings-call transcripts, internal documents reported in the press, and company statements current through June 2026. Per-worker cost figures use loaded-cost estimates (wage plus benefits plus overhead) and are labeled "est." where they appear. Ratios — cost advantage, robot-to-worker, displacement multiple — are derived directly from the stated figures and shown with their inputs so the arithmetic is checkable. CEO quotes are reproduced from the named source and cross-checked against the Receipt Tracker. Last full pass: June 2026. Updated as companies report.
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