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Most of these tech workers are too lazy to keep up with what’s going on or learn new skills, and their compensation is out of proportion to their usefulness. Th
by happy-go-lucky 9y ago
Most of these tech workers are too lazy to keep up with what’s going on or learn new skills, and their compensation is out of proportion to their usefulness. Their employers are no different. Both are always haunted by the fear of being made redundant by their clients. They suffer from aversion to change. As a matter of fact, the automation that the article says has taken the place of these workers should have happened long ago. Given a folder of thousands of files, tasked with deleting every 10th file in it, I would rather write a couple lines of code that does the job for me. Who wouldn’t approve of automating such jobs?
One of Henry Ford’s quotes comes to mind: anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
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- mistermann 9y agoWhat's your opinion of presenting speculation as fact?
- robbyt 9y agoIt's called "empirical evidence" probably from experience and observation.
- senthil_rajasek 9y agoOr anecdotal.
- iovrthoughtthis 9y agoEmpirical evidence is just many anecdotes.
- senthil_rajasek 9y agoSorry, no. Just went back to wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirical_evidence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirical_evidence and empirical evidence is not just many anecdotal evidence.
- iovrthoughtthis 9y agoAre anecdotes not "the knowledge received by means of the senses, particularly by observation and experimentation", often used such that it "verifies the truth (that which accurately corresponds to reality) or falsity (inaccuracy) of a claim"?
- klibertp 9y agoI have no knowledge of India at all, but I witnessed a process similar to what GP describes in Eastern Europe: 20 years ago knowing a little bit of Windows internals (like how to connect a printer...) was enough to get a job with a decent pay. With time, however, a generic "computer skill" in population grew and universities started producing a lot of programmers (and, a bit later, admins), which made the requirements for tech jobs steadily raise. A lot of my acquaintances lost their jobs along the way and either moved to other careers or got to one of a handful of places where such jobs are still available and secure, mostly in the govt institutions. I'm not sure if the reasons I stated are really responsible for this, but the requirements in job postings getting higher over the years is a hard fact you can probably check easily.
- skn__ 9y agoI’ve worked with such service providers. Your words echo my thoughts :)