"we all can't get jobs". This, tbh. Just like we can't all be content creators, or porn stars, or musicians, or even fast food workers. And yet someone is always out there selling the illusion. As I wrote recently:
"A system that sells winning must first mass-produce losing over and over, and call it hope."
"Gen Z folks who aren't pursuing the degrees required to fill the jobs." My favorite part is "required", as if we're talking about neurosurgeons or nuclear physicists. It's not. It's being a glorified secretary, or a dashboard jockey, or pretending to do marketing. It's reading the same KPIs and spitting out the same templated reports. The degrees are just compliance checks. Credential gatekeeping. And I'm glad to see it slowly choking these so-called industries.
One of the many things I've done is work on computers, until one day places started asking if I had a CompTIA cert. You know, the A+. A piece of paper that basically says you've been doing the job for six months. Looks at the calendar... five years. Huh. I'll save that rabbit hole for another time.
Another thing I just love to see: "everybody is replaceable."
They are. They aren't. I don't need you. Please come back. I'm better off. No wait, I'm not. Before AI, it was "we need creatives"... but not you. Not the person who can paint and write and play music. No, you should code. Or do whatever dumb thing. Sure, you understand marketing and sales and you're good with people, but we need you over here doing this. Not that.
Then bam AI. Now thinking is a commodity. Art is a commodity. The only thing that matters is taste and distribution. Oh, and guess what? They own distribution. They set taste. Funny how that works.
Appreciate the read and the feedback! Love this, "mass produced losing...and call it hope." That's the definition of the lottery, right? I know and work with lots of engineers in the tech sphere and the question of who is certified to do things vs who is able do things drives me crazy. Some of our best engineers design these elaborate beautiful systems and then require sign off from a desk jockey layabout to get it in the hands of the folks who do the building. The gatekeeping preventing people from getting a shot is half of what drives me so fucking crazy. Wanting it and getting it are so far apart for the masses and live next door to one another for the 1%. It's enough to make you feel like you're the problem when really the whole machine is built to make you think that. Everyone's pissed all the time, and I can't blame them. I count myself among them.
"we all can't get jobs". This, tbh. Just like we can't all be content creators, or porn stars, or musicians, or even fast food workers. And yet someone is always out there selling the illusion. As I wrote recently:
"A system that sells winning must first mass-produce losing over and over, and call it hope."
"Gen Z folks who aren't pursuing the degrees required to fill the jobs." My favorite part is "required", as if we're talking about neurosurgeons or nuclear physicists. It's not. It's being a glorified secretary, or a dashboard jockey, or pretending to do marketing. It's reading the same KPIs and spitting out the same templated reports. The degrees are just compliance checks. Credential gatekeeping. And I'm glad to see it slowly choking these so-called industries.
One of the many things I've done is work on computers, until one day places started asking if I had a CompTIA cert. You know, the A+. A piece of paper that basically says you've been doing the job for six months. Looks at the calendar... five years. Huh. I'll save that rabbit hole for another time.
Another thing I just love to see: "everybody is replaceable."
They are. They aren't. I don't need you. Please come back. I'm better off. No wait, I'm not. Before AI, it was "we need creatives"... but not you. Not the person who can paint and write and play music. No, you should code. Or do whatever dumb thing. Sure, you understand marketing and sales and you're good with people, but we need you over here doing this. Not that.
Then bam AI. Now thinking is a commodity. Art is a commodity. The only thing that matters is taste and distribution. Oh, and guess what? They own distribution. They set taste. Funny how that works.
Appreciate the read and the feedback! Love this, "mass produced losing...and call it hope." That's the definition of the lottery, right? I know and work with lots of engineers in the tech sphere and the question of who is certified to do things vs who is able do things drives me crazy. Some of our best engineers design these elaborate beautiful systems and then require sign off from a desk jockey layabout to get it in the hands of the folks who do the building. The gatekeeping preventing people from getting a shot is half of what drives me so fucking crazy. Wanting it and getting it are so far apart for the masses and live next door to one another for the 1%. It's enough to make you feel like you're the problem when really the whole machine is built to make you think that. Everyone's pissed all the time, and I can't blame them. I count myself among them.