Sounds like a good idea to embrace new tech, then, instead of get eaten.
Cool, so we're back to "streamlining" and mass unemployment just in time to get eaten anyway.
Once more for emphasis: you do not have to cheer on the immiseration machine.
No, we’re not. Small businesses embracing technology to get more done with the same number of people is not “immiseration.”
And I take it from your use of Marxist terminology that you’re coming from that the perspective. 20th Century Marxists embraced technological advancement, and used that to advance the cause of the proletariat. The REAL immiseration is to embrace paleoconservative ludditism.
Most small businesses skimp by on very small margins - often run by "crafters" or "artistans" who generally couldn't tell you much about margins besides "cash in the bank"
I believe AGI can help small businesses have higher margins for the same service level - but lower cost.
It's okay to not think every technology under the sun is a good thing. You don't have to have heart-eyes emojis for the immiseration machine.