This is reversion to the historic mean where peasants and slaves had no class mobility.
And it never existed in white-shoe law firms and has been gone from tech and the corporate world since jobs like janitorial and security and mailroom were outsourced to contractors.More recently, it's hardly been AI but rather the gig economy where workers are structurally unable to network with the people they work for.
Or to put it another way, if AI taking your job seems like a new kind of phenomenon, it is only because you have gotten used to living on the other side of the economy. The only difference is now the economy is coming for you.
I think this is definitely true in the sense that some tasks pf junior tech jobs are evaporating.
But when computers became ubiquitous, bankers worried what associates would do for a living if nobody had to manually calculate spreadsheets—yet the finance internship is alive and well.
I'm not saying this disruption will have no impact at all. But we'll keep finding things to do for young people, they'll just move up the chain of command.
It’s a great question. I think part of the answer lies in changing how we frame entrepreneurship. Instead of just focusing on the hustle and financial rewards, we should highlight the creative problem-solving, the freedom to experiment, and the satisfaction of building something meaningful from scratch.
A lot of the excitement in other subjects comes from discovery and exploration, and starting a business can be just as much about learning and adapting as it is about scaling and profits.
What do you think? Would reframing entrepreneurship as a craft make it more interesting to beginners?
How do we make starting a business just as interesting as any other subject?
This isn't a technology problem, it's a people problem. As ever, NYT breaks out the passive voice to make a smokescreen for the people who are actually doing the breaking.