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Agreed. Why is that though?
The best paying jobs are generally the most scalable jobs, as you can derive income from/add value to more revenue streams with minimal time cost on your part. That doesn't automatically correlate with parasitical roles, but there is an overlap.
I think the most interesting jobs technically are in developer tools or developer infrastructure companies. This includes companies building databases (e.g. Cockroach, Neon.tech), compilers (e.g. JetBrains), CDNs (e.g. Fastly, Cloudflare), hosting (e.g. Digital Ocean). These companies hire frontend developer, backend developers, core systems developers. You don't have to be a genius or a CS grad. You can always get i…
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I think that's an important part of it. I'd add another factor: the global economy and financial system is an impossibly complex construct that nobody understands in its totality and which as a result is very difficult to control and predict. Some companies and people manage to find parts of the system where they can essentially tap into a stream of money. Jobs in that area then tend to pay rather more than you would…
That part sounds like "Don't be perceived as a cost-center," but I think most big-lumbering-org departments have figured out how to plead their case. That's a lot harder to do with something like teaching, where there's a large supply of candidates and everyone agrees the job is socially valuable, but confounding factors make it very hard to measure any individual's contribution.
Sometimes you can get lucky and land an interesting job, but I think getting to do interesting work takes time (and luck). An anecdote from my past as an illustration: When I started my job at [FAANG] I was assigned a project. It was not mind-numbing, but not sexy either -- modernize the infrastructure while not messing up the site. Being new, I gave it my all and was rewarded a couple of years later by having the op…
FAANG might be interesting but their interview processes kill it for me. I have no idea how people find the time to do homework for it + are willing to spend months in this lengthy interview pipeline.
(Also there are problems with FAANG type companies being generally kind of evil these days, of course)
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Agreed. Why is that though?
The best paying jobs are generally the most scalable jobs, as you can derive income from/add value to more revenue streams with minimal time cost on your part. That doesn't automatically correlate with parasitical roles, but there is an overlap.
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Said society has fairly simply automated self-cleaning restrooms. It’s really not that hard, or expensive.
I looked up self cleaning restrooms and how to purchase. They are extremely expensive 300,000-500,000 USD and break constantly due to vandalism. They appear to be very hard and very expensive in practice. You may be thinking of self cleaning toilets which are not relevant to this discussion.
I do however think that is not the case, & that it is a comparatively simple issue nobody has given too much of a fuck about yet, as highly capitalistic societies give zero fucks about improving anything the general public may have access to.
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Please, feel free to share one single example me of a job you can "produce value" without being out-competed by a machine and/or computer.
I'd value my kids being taught well, me taken care of if I'm in a hospital or old etc. No machine can compete with the human care. Machine can help, but not replace a human.
The weird irony of our society seems to be that the most useless jobs pay the most, while the most essential jobs pay the least. A lot of important work is being done by volunteers and charity organisations. The best paying jobs are often parasitic. Like stock manipulation.
> The best paying jobs are often parasitic. Like stock manipulation. Or you could look at it as part of the process of allocating society’s resources towards more productive ventures from less productive ventures. It is not the perfect mechanism, but if anyone has a better idea, they are welcome to share. I would credit at least some people working in finance for opening up the ability for any financially illiterate…
That's clearly not what the OP was referencing.
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“teachers, that positive trait is punished financially due to the high number of applicants” There are teachers shortages throughout the country. States are rushing to reduce certification standards. “A high number of applicants” isn’t the cause of low teacher wages.
Low wages are the reason for low applicants. High standards are another reason for low applicants.
I don't. Even in average non-that-evil workplaces the main motivator of those holding the hierarchies is paying off their mortgage. Your creativity, ethics, motivation, experience, skill set are irrelevant - if you're on their way for pay off their mortgage, you're out of the carousel. Occasionally I drop CV to some matching openings and make a video call from pure inertia. Shutdown of Stack Exchange careers noticeab…
This really sucks because it was the one place I swear that wasn’t ruined by spam everywhere.