I think it's more likely Zeitgeist. You see, someone else finds working in Data Science frustrating, another person nearing his 40 says he's anxious about his c

I think it's more likely Zeitgeist. You see, someone else finds working in Data Science frustrating, another person nearing his 40 says he's anxious about his career, another guy says he's worried about it's too late to do something about the big tech messing up the field etc. I've had similar issues recently working at a demanding position I didn't really like even though my achievements may look impressive in my resume. I tried working in a shop somewhere in between aerospace and academia but just didn't fit at all. I ended up joining a small team that I enjoy working with so far and feel much better now. At a higher level, we're hitting the limits of current paradigm in many ways including monetary system (debt), environment (pollution) and natural resources, ideology (creativity and innovation), technology (complexity). The good news is that this year current monetary system will cease to exist. This will eventually restructure the economy to a more healthy balance. Unfortunately, this will have severe social consequences as standard of living will change dramatically (somewhere at the 60's level). This will basically destroy the middle class and thus change the structure of consumption. Obviously, this will mostly affect services and other non-essential stuff we got used to. On the other hand, this will blow down all bloat like insane market cap of the big tech etc. That is working in IT may become fun again, like 20 years back :)