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.
The replacement isn't a feeling. It's a line item. So we 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.
We are not against the math being possible. We are against pretending the math isn't being done. Every example here ends the same way: a verdict drawn straight from the numbers, and the receipt — the executive who said the quiet part into a microphone. Open a company. Read what it spends, what it cuts, and what it costs to make a person optional. Then decide whether "nobody's losing their job to AI" still sounds like a number you can defend.
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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