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Another sign the world is moving towards a cyberpunk future, with extremely unevenly distributed outcomes. Work in tech as a full time employee at a megacorp o
by arcanus 10y ago
Another sign the world is moving towards a cyberpunk future, with extremely unevenly distributed outcomes.
Work in tech as a full time employee at a megacorp or well funded start up and in many ways your value has never been higher. On the other hand some companies are outsourcing entire IT departments.
The same thing has happened in law: attorneys salaries are bimodal, where top law grads moving to corporate white shoe firms start with strong 6 figure salaries and the rest at much lower levels of remuneration.
This bifurcation of society is certainly due to very real economic forces (outsized success for firms addressing a global market), but it absolutely cannot be socially stable in the long term.
- eli_gottlieb 10y agoSocially stable? Didn't a government just get elected that promises to pull out of, well, most international trade deals?
- dukeluke 10y agoWhat does that have to do with the post above?
- eli_gottlieb 10y agoI don't see how you can have global-facing firms without international laws to facilitate things.
- witty_username 10y ago> Another sign the world is moving towards a cyberpunk future, with extremely unevenly distributed outcomes. No. Global inequality has been decreasing in the past 2 decades. There used to be a bifurcation in income but now there isn't. https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/ourworldindata_worldincomedistribution1820to2000.png https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/ourwor... (Note that it uses absolute population numbers)
- Bombthecat 10y agoOh yes, it will be unstable but nothing will change.