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With the two examples you chose, I‘d say there is not much of a skill gap. If you‘d have chosen a burger flipper and an aeronautical engineer or a surgeon, I‘d

• gruez 3y ago
  > With the two examples you chose, I‘d say there is not much of a skill gap. Unless we're talking about really high end burgers, you can take almost anyone off the street and train them to flip burger patties within a day. They might not willingly do it on account of it being boring/tiring/poorly paid work, but it's not exactly hard to learn either. I doubt you can do the same for an accountant, unless your idea of an accountant is something like "manually copying entries into a ledger". Even teaching excel to someone who hasn't used excel ever, to a capacity where they can do meaningful financial reporting probably can't be done within a day.
  • nojster 3y ago
    On a relative scale, I agree with you that the amount of training involved differs for accountants and burger flippers, thus this is a good example. On an absolute scale, comparing skills of burger flippers, accountants, aeronautical engineers and surgeons, the first two basically lump together. I look at skill gap more in terms of „how hard is it to completely automate/autonomize this job“. Which is fiercely easy both for the burger flipper and the accountant, yet a bit harder (though not impossible) for the other two.