"Cognitive non-repetitive," work as described is basically political work. I've heard it referred to lately as "durable skills." Soft skills are useful tools li

"Cognitive non-repetitive," work as described is basically political work. I've heard it referred to lately as "durable skills." Soft skills are useful tools like others, but the elevation of them above competent work makes for soft ideas. In the article, the examples of CNR work included "computer scientists," with lawyers, doctors, and managers - all jobs that computer scientists are rapidly augmenting, if not replacing with machine learning. So called CNR work isn't intrinsically valuable. It's artificially gated and the market for them is distorted because of regulatory capture. Tech is changing that. However, I also think the availability of information on the internet has reduced the status of formerly elite schools to mere managerialist tribes. The schools offered networks and information, and those can't compete with social media. They're still politically influential, but the culture is leaving them behind and they're rapidly becoming just another faction. So, my bias is that the article is about some self-interested critical nonsense advocating a political agenda that won't have cultural traction. I look forward to arguing that point from my farm.