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As the author highlights, this is not a new thing. What is definitely a more recent thing is that half-life is much shorter than before. Now it is fair to say that even the knowledge that's most staying power has at most a 2-3 year half life.

My own solution to this problem has been to work in startups for 2-3 years and then move on rather than try to seek a well paid job at a large, prestigious company.

Why? I started my career at one of these brand name, "everybody wants to get in" kind of companies that hadn't made institutional layoffs ever. When time came to do their first mass layoff, I saw people who had spent their entire careers at the company lose their jobs unemployable because thy had essentially become bureaucrats.

Startups offer you the possibility of "on the job training" for the most recent technical stack. And precisely because there are too many people with golden handcuffs at the large companies, good startups are a bit easier to get into (not "easy", but "easier").

The downside is that 90% of startups fail, and you need to live with that. At the same time, if you happen to work at one that succeeds spectacularly, you won't have to worry about making a living until you die.