Pops wrote:Really, all jobs are B/S. We weren't born with union cards, just hunter/gatherer tools. We aren't gonna do that again anytime soon I'm thinking.
But the next economy will be a lot more than just phoning it in.
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StarvingLion wrote:"I get at least 2-3 recruiters nagging me a week"
And what skills do the recruiters have?
A. None.
About 99% of the people at peakoil.com hate the oil&gas industry, petrochemical plants, etc. The 99%ers want to sit behind a computer and pretend to do something (eg. analysts, pretense of knowledge) because its easy. No wonder there is a demand for that. This is hard:
Plantagenet wrote:Uber and all cab driving jobs are already doomed.
Self-driving cars will quickly be converted to fleets of self-driving cabs and they'll drive existing cab businesss and Uber out of business. You can already see that technological change coming down the road.
No sir. Uber is out of business now. Too many accidents. It is much safer now that every cab is a robot cab.
StarvingLion wrote:"I get at least 2-3 recruiters nagging me a week"
And what skills do the recruiters have?
A. None.
About 99% of the people at peakoil.com hate the oil&gas industry, petrochemical plants, etc. The 99%ers want to sit behind a computer and pretend to do something (eg. analysts, pretense of knowledge) because its easy. No wonder there is a demand for that.
StarvingLion wrote:The middle class was enabled thru royalties from oil&gas exploration and development.
And, no, I don't understand the common "Get a job" mentality. Who the hell are the "job providers" and if they don't have an obligation to employ a tax payer than why should I pay taxes?
Either you have a claim on hard resources or you don't.
Apneaman wrote:Ennui and what industry do you work in?
Pops wrote:So again, there is only a couple of ways to go as "productivity" continues to increase: either stuff gets cheaper and cheaper or, it doesn't and profits get redistributed.
ennui2 wrote:Apneaman wrote:Ennui and what industry do you work in?
I've been a web developer since the late 90s. I feel well qualified to comment on hiring trends and corporate psychology within IT. What I see here is a lot of ideological chest-thumping about how evil corporations are and not a whiff of pragmatism about how people could actually survive or even thrive if they actually stopped being so fatalistic and managed their careers. Unplugging from BAU is a romantic notion but it has some serious drawbacks vs. maximizing your earning potential from within.
Ibon wrote:those whose perspectives of long term wage slave status at low wages isn't going to deliver
Ibon wrote:go on a career path on a treadmill that will not lead to any meaningful prosperity.
ennui2 wrote:Ibon wrote:those whose perspectives of long term wage slave status at low wages isn't going to deliver
Is that kind of a euphemism for white-trash idiots?
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