| It seems like the trap you're falling into goes back to what "a job" is.
Not your fault, you're still young, and a lot of older folk fall into the same trap, believing a job is defined as "someone paying me to do some work." A job is when someone pays you to add value. (It's true all the way down to bullshit jobs, where the value you're adding is to meet an uneconomic need.) It doesn't matter which work models will eliminate. All that matters is building value in a reality where they exist. Just as a casual observation, climate change continues to rage on, energy supply is still a bottleneck, almost half the deaths in high-income countries are from cancer etc. etc. etc. There will always be value to add. The baseline may change, but no one yearns back to the days before the copying machine or Excel. In my mind, the most sensible thing an ambitious teenager can do is get a proper academic education (AI is not magic, it's jus the product of research, and all those people doing the research did exactly that - get good education.) Also, and I realize that doesn't gel with the whole HN ethos but whatever, don't waste your early working years starting a company. The only way to discover real problems in the world are to live in that world. Getting to understand a domain well, any domain, will serve you better than any 'Uber for X' ever will. |