So, become a lawyer? The profession is benefiting from AI (reducing costs), while gatekeeping and regulation limit entry and competition.
US Job Market Visualizer
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#272Earlier quoted context omitted.
If AI being a million billion zillion times more productive at doing bullshit jobs nets in very little economic gain, then that lays bare the net economic value of all our bullshit jobs. But given that the stock market hasn't panicked, this must mean at least one of these premises is false: 1. Economic activity is relatively flat. 2. AI makes us a million billion zillion times more productive than we used to be. 3. T…
> lays bare the net economic value of all our bullshit jobs. This was already obvious, the more important question is what are we (collectively, society & our governments) going to do about it? We (should have) already known most of our jobs were bullshit jobs, especially white collar jobs. The difference is now we might have something coming that will eliminate the bullshit jobs. But society will always need bullshi…
Clean the bed pans of boomer retirees. And pay into a collapsing social security to finish off the wealth transfer.
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#273Earlier quoted context omitted.
Curious as someone that doesn't experience the issue but assumes that your system Accessibility settings, maybe high-contrast, would be useful instead of expecting individual sites to tailor their color palette... does that not work?
This comment prompted me to find out about colour filters for mac os. I enabled the red/green filter, which made it easier to see the differences on the site, however the downside is it affects a lot of other colors and images on other sites, so is not a feasible solution, for me at least.
I toggle it on and off with a keyboard shortcut on a rare occasion colors are hard to read for me. Mostly use it on my phone actually (it's a triple click of the lock button on my iPhone). There are shortcuts on Windows and MacOS too. Doesn't seem like it would be too inconvenient for someone that actually suffers from color blindness or a sight issue, I would expect they'd run into the issue more commonly than me and would then know how to solve it for themselves.
A lot more inconvenient for others to have to pick colors that satisfy all potential sight issues, which is primarily why I think it should be an OS solution rather than an individual creator's responsibility. It's not that I don't care about those with the sight issue, it's purely about who is responsible for creating a reasonable solution. And honestly, there's no way every creator is going to study accessibility and so it's just a never ending uphill battle. If you had a tool in your system already that could help, why wouldn't you use it?
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#274Wow, I had no idea the reason my peers and I can't find another position in less than 12 months is because the market for software developers is growing faster than average!
Every year US absorbs 120k+ H1B+L1+OPT new visa holders. Considering there are 1.9M software engineers, market has to grow by 5% every year just to stand still. Add US graduates and you are talking about 10% growth required just to maintain employment. It's not realistic long term.
Congress/president should pause H1B visas or hike up fee to 200-500K so that only truly exceptional talent are allowed in. Right now it's just give away to corporations that are laying off people by tens of thousands.
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#275Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think you understand what the 1% is, it's not your neighbour who has a nice house, a swimming pool and a ferrari... https://images.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/9... https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020... https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/CvQar/full.png https://static.guim.co.uk/ni/1415721490539/Wealth_line-chart...
Definitionally the 1% is people making ~$800k+ a year. Upper-middle class is people making ~$200k/year. A lot of people have moved from middle class to upper middle class over the last decade. Both those categories are outside the 1%.
When did upper middle class start meaning upper class? Something like 90% of Americans identify as middle class now.
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#276It's wild that there are as many jobs in the category "Top Executives" as in the category "Retail Sales Worker". This makes sense given both automation and the US's role in the global economy, but it runs somewhat contrary to standard ideas of class and inequality.
That category has a median pay of $105,350, and includes "general and operations managers" as well as "chief executives". I assume it includes executives of very small enterprises. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/top-executives.htm
Good point. To take it one step further, if they are including 'general managers' and 'operations managers' in this bucket, then that should include the GM and Ops Manager at places like retail stores as well (for example, every Best Buy location has both positions, I'm sure it's similar for Walmart and other big box retailers too).
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#277Earlier quoted context omitted.
> cooking with an oven is more of a special occasion thing than the default cooking method that it was before. This is an incredible self-report. If you consider microwaved meals to be your default method of cooking and not something primarily for reheating leftovers or defrosting frozen meat, I sincerely hope you've gotten your cholesterol and blood pressure checked recently. That is not normal.
I haven't used my oven since buying a counter top air fryer (and a sous vide) a couple years ago. I can't think of a single reason why anyone needs a full size oven on a daily basis unless you're cooking for a large family.
You make your soups in an air fryer??
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#278Earlier quoted context omitted.
Still look the same to me.
Ignoring the sentence that admits they can be the same ("Programmers work closely with software developers, and in some businesses their duties overlap."). Programmers is like a translator; somebody else came up with what to do and you're doing the mechanical work of converting words into C++. Developer involves coming up with what to do. Hence programmers is a lower paid position.
Programmer as defined here, in my experience, is a job that has never really existed. Sure, they've tried many times to create this divide - going back to the beginning of programming (originally considered secretarial work) - but ultimately programmer is still making many design decisions when typing out code.
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#279Wow, I had no idea the reason my peers and I can't find another position in less than 12 months is because the market for software developers is growing faster than average!
Every year US absorbs 120k+ H1B+L1+OPT new visa holders. Considering there are 1.9M software engineers, market has to grow by 5% every year just to stand still. Add US graduates and you are talking about 10% growth required just to maintain employment. It's not realistic long term. Congress/president should pause H1B visas or hike up fee to 200-500K so that only truly exceptional talent are allowed in. Right now it's…
Are new H1Bs a thing anymore?
Since the fee went up to $100k, I’m not aware of any companies still sponsoring hires who need a new H1B
Re: US Job Market Visualizer
#280It's wild that there are as many jobs in the category "Top Executives" as in the category "Retail Sales Worker". This makes sense given both automation and the US's role in the global economy, but it runs somewhat contrary to standard ideas of class and inequality.
> it runs somewhat contrary to standard ideas of class and inequality. Can you elaborate?
When people think "top executives" they think of a very, very small group of people making tens of millions of dollars a year or much more. The reality is that that's not the case.