Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "Why Most People Are Actually "Too Good" For Their Job" video.

  1. If the question was, "what is the good of accounting", it would be reasonable to grant you some leeway, but, no in the areas you are straying into. It's time to get real. Capitalism see Labour as a resource. Full stop. Personal fulfilment and your need for status means very little in the scheme of things. Why? You're only employed to solve their problem really. And as soon as they find a more cheaper, and/or efficient means of solving the problem you're employed you to do, you will lose that job. That's what they call progress. All that stuff about looking after their workers is only to attract the very best candidates from the labour pool. And even they will be discarded at the will of the God of Profit. Thus our economic ideology at the present is almost bad Social Darwinism. It's a meat grinder, as the Pink Floyd album 'The Wall' correctly identified. And the question is will you be inside it or turning the handle? If all the AI hype is to believed your job is on the chopping block. Most white collar jobs will be on the chopping block. Thus, Economic Darwinism suggests that you transition to i) another profession, ii) UBI, or iii) Soylent Green. That's it. The rest - university, school, etc., it's all salad dressing on a system designed to produce economic active workers. When they can no longer be economically active, which AI threatens to do, nobody is willing to commit openly to some form of option iii). But you'll hear Warren Buffet and his son talk about "Degrowth", and they are trying to get the Masses to accept that one way or another the current economic model is on its way out. Thus, human ingenuity is now being directed to unwinding it. The question is how many people do we need? In that context, what one learns in university is learn how to learn in a limited specialisation, which we might not really need anymore within this, or the next century, due to advances in technology. So we might turn to space to find places to expand into. Or, we might not. Nobody's sure. But, the lesson to take from this is, don't take your self-esteem from your job. Rather, take it from your ability to adapt and your resilience. Take nothing for granted, and be grateful for what you have. Happy travels.
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