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What you call myopia I call seeing the bigger picture. Offer some cameramen the tech salary for a tech job (pretend the qualifications are there) and see if mos
by buran77 6y ago
What you call myopia I call seeing the bigger picture. Offer some cameramen the tech salary for a tech job (pretend the qualifications are there) and see if most flat out refuse because you're right and they have a good salary and union, or would hypothetically accept it because I'm right and people would go for a higher salary as long as the job isn't an extreme example of unsatisfying work.
- heavyset_go 6y agoFrom the people that I know who work in media and entertainment, they wouldn't trade their careers for the world.
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- buran77 6y agoI'd never claim nobody picks a job because they love it above all else, just that the lower-end the job, the less likely that happens. On the other hand very few of the people I heard saying "not for the world" ever properly tested their resolve. I think you choose to see the tip of the pyramid in this particular "cameraman" case. You pick the few with the better conditions, rather than the many, many with the worse ones. It's pretty much a certainty that most cameramen in the world do not have upper middle class incomes, good benefits, or unions on their side yet their job is just as targeted by automation as the ones you think of. The couple or truckers I know making $200+k a year are also the exception rather than the rule. Look, I know camera operators who are expected to process and edit the material and get paid their weight in gold. Most others are "just" camera operators and get paid barely middle class salaries. The jobs that get automated are these second type because it's easier to train an algorithm or another human to do them than for many other jobs. It also means there's less room to be choosy. And people also learn to love what they do.