Everyone is being priced out. Rent too high and foot traffic too low and customers no longer prepared to spend as once they did. The Consumer has also I believe been "Dis-intermediated." A crucial part of the great DIS-integration is ending consumerism by forcing survival eating bugs. Intentional sabotage. Cattle and fowl culled and hunger comes quick unless the insect steak so tasty good only an expert knows for sure it is 15 bugs and 9 worms.
Younger micro serfs will likely cack out whilst spiking it at the volleyball retreat. Companies may come crawling back, but I will be hunkered down in my bunker, or 4 wheeled perhaps, with any luck. Isn't the new retirement age never?
At the fabrication companies I have worked at, it was rare if someone was over ~45. It's really too bad, discarding accumulated knowledge like that, but I think the constant technological shifts effectively sifted out all but the 'new tech' kids. As I do drafting I saw this close up, as my dad, an Architect, never learned CAD but was forced to convert his office to cad which was a huge expense and also something that has come to completely change how one works on drawings and office workflow. I learned hand drafting in college in Michigan, but by the time I got out to the west coast, (1994) I had to hurry up and learn CAD. I was pathed to learn one brand of cad, then another, and then Autocad. Then Autocad kept changing, and has kept changing. I finally drew the line, no more new programs, and now use a very old version of Autocad. I wouldn't go back to hand drafting unless the power is out (soon?) , but I also wont go forward and learn new programs. The curve is just too steep, a year of struggle only to have them update software. Every upgrade comes with costs, and as we see with things like Boeing, more tech does not make better products unless the people have real skills and discernment.
I think recently in about 5 years maximum everything changes. AI is mainstream now. Wait till it infiltrates multiple work spots from robot surgery to janitorial service to white collar law and the stock exchanges (where HFT is the Norm now.)
At least the older systems are more reliable, until they become untenable or simply vanish. We still have pencils and horses, hammers and nails, shovels and shoelaces, even though each has more modern versions, the old persists. best
Getting to be as poor as a church mouse here too. Small business ain’t working for cash flow even.
Everyone is being priced out. Rent too high and foot traffic too low and customers no longer prepared to spend as once they did. The Consumer has also I believe been "Dis-intermediated." A crucial part of the great DIS-integration is ending consumerism by forcing survival eating bugs. Intentional sabotage. Cattle and fowl culled and hunger comes quick unless the insect steak so tasty good only an expert knows for sure it is 15 bugs and 9 worms.
Younger micro serfs will likely cack out whilst spiking it at the volleyball retreat. Companies may come crawling back, but I will be hunkered down in my bunker, or 4 wheeled perhaps, with any luck. Isn't the new retirement age never?
Yes true never. Predicated on some gig who agrees. In my life 40 was too old.
At the fabrication companies I have worked at, it was rare if someone was over ~45. It's really too bad, discarding accumulated knowledge like that, but I think the constant technological shifts effectively sifted out all but the 'new tech' kids. As I do drafting I saw this close up, as my dad, an Architect, never learned CAD but was forced to convert his office to cad which was a huge expense and also something that has come to completely change how one works on drawings and office workflow. I learned hand drafting in college in Michigan, but by the time I got out to the west coast, (1994) I had to hurry up and learn CAD. I was pathed to learn one brand of cad, then another, and then Autocad. Then Autocad kept changing, and has kept changing. I finally drew the line, no more new programs, and now use a very old version of Autocad. I wouldn't go back to hand drafting unless the power is out (soon?) , but I also wont go forward and learn new programs. The curve is just too steep, a year of struggle only to have them update software. Every upgrade comes with costs, and as we see with things like Boeing, more tech does not make better products unless the people have real skills and discernment.
I think recently in about 5 years maximum everything changes. AI is mainstream now. Wait till it infiltrates multiple work spots from robot surgery to janitorial service to white collar law and the stock exchanges (where HFT is the Norm now.)
At least the older systems are more reliable, until they become untenable or simply vanish. We still have pencils and horses, hammers and nails, shovels and shoelaces, even though each has more modern versions, the old persists. best