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What's the rest of the evidence that society is avoiding difficulty? Are fewer people becoming doctors or engineers? For a while, a lot of talented people were
by time_management 18y ago
What's the rest of the evidence that society is avoiding difficulty? Are fewer people becoming doctors or engineers?
For a while, a lot of talented people were piling into the financial industry, which is (was?) the only industry in which it's possible to be entirely mediocre and make $1m/year within a decade. The horrific collapse of the academic job market was a contributor to this trend.
However, I don't think the desire to make large sums of money with modest effort is a new feature of our "hyperdiverse" economy. It's a rather mundane result of human nature.
- tptacek 18y agoA lot of those people were only going into EECS to make easy money too; many of them were only going to stay for 2-5 years before coming back for an MBA or a law degree to go after IP law. I guess the simple question is, are there fewer people going in to medicine now? It's incredibly difficult to become a doctor.