> the top of the knowledge economy. The only economy that isn't demonstrably under threat. The knowledge economy? At one point in the past, this used to be acc

> the top of the knowledge economy. The only economy that isn't demonstrably under threat. The knowledge economy? At one point in the past, this used to be accounting, law and medicine. Maybe engineering. Accounting has been largely automated. Law is under siege. Digital discovery has laid waste to huge swaths of paralegal demand. And the assault on the medical practitioner ("don't you know how long I went to school? I don't need a computer to tell me what I already know") is coming soon (modulo manual procedures and the people-centric bits) If you mean we computer programmers - by and large, from what I can tell, we're the new factory worker. Some of us even rise up to start our own factory. And usually (by the numbers) we fail. I spent years doing semiconductor in Japan and then a couple of decades doing software in (mostly) the US. My Japanese wife wants our kids to be lawyers or doctors or engineers. I'm not sure that becoming welders or air-conditioner techs wouldn't be a safer (and less globalize-able) choice.