Yes, White-Collar Work Has Been Meaningless For About A Decade
But here comes Andy Automation. So the question becomes: what the hell happens with less and less FTE options?
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The LinkedIn News Right Rail, which one had an article about Will Ferrell vs. Kevin Hart — top of mind for all CFOs, naturally — has some new drivel about the end of white-collar jobs. But wait, what if it’s not drivel?
You could also look at this, from The Wall Street Journal .
And I’ll throw this tweet in here for you as well, which is from a guy that constantly ignores me and focuses on his woke Austin friends, Mr.
, the king of "I had a kid slightly later in life and cannot see how it would be hard for others who haven't achieved that."Let’s take a look at what’s happening here.
Before we do, we can also look at the idea of “a new social contract:”
"Yes, Hello, Can I Get A New Social Contract, Please?"
I would definitely refer to the modern moment as an inflection point. Back in 2016, The New Yorker called the automation age akin to “squeezing the Industrial Revolution into the lifespan of a beagle.” Then we had Trump 1.0 and COVID and we were still talking a lot about Facebook and Instagram, but eventually we did arrive at the full-on “Automation Age” and we’re now in the 1.0/2.0 version of it, which will increasingly include layoffs and social displacement.
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