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There are 80 percent jobs, but unlikely for highly sought after careers(note career != jobs) with nonlinear payoff functions. Think of the NBA, Olympic athlet
by j7ake 3y ago
There are 80 percent jobs, but unlikely for highly sought after careers(note career != jobs) with nonlinear payoff functions.
Think of the NBA, Olympic athletes, or movie stars. The performance difference between the top 10 people versus unemployed is probably much less than 20 percent.
In the extreme case: a 100 m sprinter sprinting 12 seconds vs 10 seconds is the difference between gold vs unknown.
- fakedang 3y agoWhy compare apples and oranges? Most jobs aren't as NBA athletes, Olympic athletes or movie stars. Those aren't highly sought after careers either. That privilege goes to whichever careers pay more as a median. It's only kids who want to become moonshot stars.
- j7ake 3y agoWell most jobs are actually on hourly wage already, so 80 percent jobs exist for the majority of workers. https://www.forbes.com/sites/johncaplan/2021/03/12/americas-hourly-workers/amp/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/johncaplan/2021/03/12/americas-...
- fakedang 3y agoEquating basic subsistence level jobs to 80 percent jobs just because of the hourly nature is a bad faith argument imo.
- defrost 3y agoMeanwhile, for the other 330 million people in the USofA who are not Olympic athletes or NBA superstars . . . It's nice that you address an unrepresentative teeny tiny micro sliver of the employed, but is there anything you can add for the majority?
- j7ake 3y agoPlease note that the majority of workers in usa are on hourly wage. So for the majority of workers, 80 percent jobs exist, but they are not desirable. The people on hackernews do not represent the majority, but rather people who enjoy programming and want to make it a high paying career. Such luxury necessarily means it is highly competitive. Therefore I used the extreme analogy of professional athletes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/johncaplan/2021/03/12/americas-hourly-workers/amp/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/johncaplan/2021/03/12/americas-...