Your Job used to impress people. That era just ended
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Your Job used to impress people. That era just ended
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#2AI hype AstroTurf?
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#3A generally good advice is to not choose career paths based on how much they'll impress others.
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#4AI hype AstroTurf?
I don't think AI is central to this article at all (altho, sure, it's mentioned)
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#5In the 90s this same logic would have predicted that Napster would have ended record labels.
Edit: ...or at least flip the relationship between artist and label.
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#6> For the first time in generations, peasants could make demands. They could walk away from one lord and find work with another who offered better conditions.
Unless you were English, where the lords with the power passed laws (binding other lords) to override your obvious leverage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Labourers_1351
... and that led to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasants%27_Revolt
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#7> This scene might feel like science fiction
A skilled tradesperson in high demand being able to afford an investment property is science fiction?
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#9I read a bit of this and sort of just glazed over
The fact is that people have never been that impressed by job titles, at least not in my lifetime
No one's ever been like "oh wow you're a software engineer? That's so incredible"
Mostly if they're impressed, it's because it pays well and they assume I'm pretty rich
I'm not. I do really well compared to my peers, yes, but ultimately I'm still living the same kind of middle class lifestyle my parents had while my Dad worked at a tool store and my Mom worked part time at nonprofits
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#10A lawyer can become a locksmith in a few months (weeks? days?). If the flip mentioned is really happening, isn't it temporary?