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Progress != destruction of jobs. Farming, auto, journalism, and marketing fits your model. But medicine, finance, and tech would suggest otherwise. I've been g
by yuy910616 5y ago
Progress != destruction of jobs.
Farming, auto, journalism, and marketing fits your model. But medicine, finance, and tech would suggest otherwise. I've been getting advice about how there is no money in software and I should study hardware since 90s.
Yes, maybe this is a freefall and we haven't made impact yet.
But drawing parallel without further evidence seems to be too simple of a analysis.
What cause the jobs in Detroit to be outsourced? What skills was replaced? How easy was it to train those skills? What was the potential pool of workers? What was the demand of workers?
All I'm saying is that this question is a lot more nuanced. I'm a software engineer, so I'm biased. But I'm guessing that you might be biased in some ways too. The real answer, perhaps boring, is that we really don't know. Even if you're right - you could easily be off by 200 years.
- pasquinelli 5y agoyeah, a lot of people are grasping at patterns they see in their understanding of the past and treating them like rules that will determine the future.
- Clubber 5y ago>What cause the jobs in Detroit to be outsourced? Higher profit margins at the cost of lower quality and enabled with NAFTA. In the 90s until the mid 2000s, US cars were mostly top notch, now they're not that great. You can read what the market thinks of the quality of a vehicle by its resale price relative to its new price. Used Honda and Toyotas are pretty close to a new price. Chryslers, not so much. This isn't exclusively a US problem though. You can get a used BMW or Mercedes for cheap, but you probably shouldn't if you want to keep it for a while and not spend a lot of money. Back in the 90s, you could expect to get 10 years out of a vehicle relatively hassle free, now it's about 3. YMMV.