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by bilbo0s 1810 days ago
Insightful comment.

How would anyone possibly change the perception that you have to be a lawyer or MBA or you're useless? When looked at the way you suggest, this problem is enormous. I'm not sure we'd ever solve it. We just have to accommodate ourselves to a society with lawyers, MBAs, and software people everywhere.
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wombatmobile 1810 days ago
The different between a lawyer and an engineer is that one creates new means of production which grow the pie, and the other procures pieces of pie.
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bilbo0s 1810 days ago
Grows the pie, but only for people on the right side of the inequity divide. I would say tech is winner take all more than almost any other industry I can think of.

So for the people feeling the pressure of the inequality divide, there's little difference between these two. Unless they join the ranks of lawyers or engineers, there's nothing in it for them monetarily speaking.

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sershe 1809 days ago
The people get services that were unimaginable (or expensive and inferior, e.g. dedicated GPS navigators) for free, money-wise. If Google/Facebook/Amazon/... weren't providing value, they wouldn't be making so much money off the people who choose to use them. Tech is actually as close as it gets to literally creating and giving everyone free stuff, as far as the pie goes.
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wombatmobile 1810 days ago
Ordinary people get more personalised advertising.
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