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I present this as controversial I don’t consider that controversial at all - I have always believed there will still be plumbers and hairdressers long after th
by goatinaboat 7y ago
I present this as controversial
I don’t consider that controversial at all - I have always believed there will still be plumbers and hairdressers long after the last accountant has been automated away. And those jobs are safe from offshoring too. I wouldn’t advise any young person today to go into “knowledge work”. Lawyers and doctors were smart enough to protect themselves with regulators. But programmers say “hey, anyone can program, it’s easy!”
- banmeagaindan2 7y agoI agree but we are breathing rarefied air - the middle class has been pouring its children into the universities for decades - they have bought into the belief information work is more valuable than - as they like to describe it - "digging ditches". The middle class is correct that information work is valuable and wrong that it has a high future price. Growing food was and is valuable. I have fun imagining what happens if everybody found out about MP at the same time. Real trends are slow but the social world could overreact. Will the herds of goats - former lawnmowers - take over the buildings at Google and Apple? Who will write the book of Exodus when the students flee the universities? Headline: Was Ted Right? Do Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Page escape the Seal Teams from the NeoFeudalist government? One of us must write this post-apocalyptic novel - and you have experience with goats - a future lifeskill.