Is it the blitzkrieg restructuring of the federal government, and American society, by the Trump administration, or the avalanche of AI developments that is mooting much of the economy and a huge chunk of existing white collar jobs, such that people begin to question their economic worth?
Not sure, to be honest.
I've been focussing more on the latter than the former. The former is something I watch as a spectator. Many, if not most, of the commentators on my network. I feel like I'm the last to hear about a lot of that stuff.
The second is something that is. important for me to understand for my own livelihood. I don't really want to understand it, but I must. The way I earned a living for the last twenty years is pretty much dwindling away. It was reliable and solid, and we thought it would never end, but it has. For the the last two years this has been in my face, but I chose mostly to ignore it thinking it would take time to happen. I comforted myself with videos saying it was not as big of a thing as people were saying.
Now everyone knows that it is a very big thing, and also that it is happening much quicker than we thought. It will affect many different "knowledge" professions in a huge way. I am not in a position right now to retire, which would be great. I would, however, welcome "retiring" from the kind of work I did for many years.
So much is new. So much to absorb. So many people wondering what is going on.
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