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Can you give a few examples of such jobs, and what consitutes "cleverness" in them? Really curious.

• ThomPete 10y ago
  Cleaning lady, construction worker, janitor, plumber, electrician, building inspector I could go on.
  • analog31 10y ago
    Ah, but those jobs are being eaten away by automation, even if it's happening slowly. Cleaning ladies are being displaced by disposable products that don't need to be cleaned. Plumbers and electricians are being displaced by labor saving technologies. A new house contains no copper tubing or sweat fittings -- they use flexible hose and swaged connections. Wiring is no longer done with hard conduit. Framing is done with machine made components such as roof trusses. Inspection is done by bribery. ;-)
    • ThomPete 10y ago
      Sure but before that ex. radiologist will have been replaced.
      • analog31 10y ago
        Ah, yes, but the person who owns the AI radiology business, and the equipment, will happen to be a radiologist.
        • ThomPete 10y ago
          No they wont. In fact they aren't today so why should they be in the future. And furthermore you need only very few people running a whole radiology business for billions of people.
          • analog31 10y ago
            Maybe radiology is an exception (or my understanding is outdated), but from what I've read, a large portion of the medical industry is doctor-owned. For instance I've read that doctors provide a large portion of the investment pool for big ticket diagnostic equipment, and for businesses such as clinics, provider systems, and malpractice insurance companies. "The workers own the means of production." ;-)
            • ThomPete 10y ago
              Doctor owned not doctors owned. The point is that you don't need the amount of radiologist you are currently education if pattern recognition gets done by machines.
• nugget 10y ago
  Full stack web development, growth hacking, lead generation/user acquisition, on- and offline marketing and entrepreneurship in general. I have half a dozen close friends who dropped out of high school and/or college and used their raw "ingenuity or shrewdness" rather than any learned skills in order to achieve enormous success (tens of millions of dollars). Some of them in Silicon Valley, but others in boring places and boring fields. In the past there were significant barriers to entry in many fields that required expensive, time consuming, often discriminatory pedigree to pass. These barriers have largely been destroyed over the last decade. The walls have been torn down and the ladders burned (much to the discomfort of those mid-climb), and they aren't coming back. Persistence and cleverness are the deadliest combination these days.