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>I wonder if us startup heads are just early adopters

If you are in software, late to the party seems to me unless you managed to get your company going before Microsoft did. After that everyone had an example to follow.

>you would work "gigs" for a while, but this would be prep and apprenticeship for your own launch not your ultimate career path.

I thought this was obvious since the late '60's.

>In that future those stuck in "jobs" in the conventional sense would be the lower classes.

Not lower class but a type of working class who is not lower in recognition or financial compensation than independent entrepreneurs. For the most part since most small businessmen don't earn more than they would if otherwise employed, but being independent has a huge upside for the few who get capital compared to the upside at most employers. Like today.

>You'd also probably have a ton of people on welfare of various kinds.

You do! You do!