This is not a good article
A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless
From wikipedia
Examples of such professionals include ICT professionals, physicians, pharmacists, architects, engineers, mathematicians, scientists, designers, public accountants, lawyers, librarians, archivists, editors, and academics
Are they genuinely claiming
allmost of this work is pointless?The article continues
What’s different about this moment is that the questions are not just economic but existential, the kind of questions that cause high-earning technical professionals to contemplate throwing it all away to start a goat farm in Washington or become a surf instructor in Costa Rica.
I’m sure I’d seen memes about software engineers wanting become woodworkers before the AI deluge.
The writing continues with needlessly crass language. I stopped reading.
I also gave up reading it, but from a few paragraphs below, when they said knowledge work they mean stuff like marketing, finances and other relatively high paying jobs that most people aren’t passionate about but choose to do for money. I think it’s a weakness of the article that it isn’t upfront about what it means, so you’re not wrong for looking it up, but yeah, they meant that.
The article itself seems to be on alienation and stress, but as I said I didn’t finish it, as it’s quite long and not engaging enough, at least to me.
I literally know someone who quit to teach surfing in Argentina. Also know ex tech woodworkers.
Fuck, I have been seriously researching that goat farm though.
Because they got suckered into wasting their hard-earned skills on making the world a worse place.
Being a sellout has its costs.
Who’s “they”?
Programmers?
I really needed more AI propaganda, thanks!
