You have the privilege to keep yourself sharp, most businesses favor productivity over their workers' long term relevancy.

This is the thing that makes me saddest. Second to the fact that none of the management tier promoting and weaponising this insanity will meaningfully suffer consequences.

Right now I am lucky that I have the time to recover and learn.

That's just business owners and C-suite pocketing the difference while they fire staff and replacing it with AI. At some point somebody would have to start asking "business" some tough questions.