I wish to emphasize that this is one of those "Difficult to appreciate from the outside, extraordinarily obvious from the inside" facts about the tech industry.https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1087590716887334913 …
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"Is this growth sustainable?" I mean, in the narrow sense of "Can anything 2X per year over 100 years", probably no. In the sense of "Should I expect reversion to the mean in software employment?", I would bet against that.
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Considered over the arc of recorded history we're careening at breakneck speeds through a growth curve for "number of people employed who are literate" and "percentage of workforce which materially uses literacy to perform job functions", but that doesn't mean "literacy bubble."
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Consumption of technology skill in productive labor will likely increase over time, and skill levels which would have predicted "highly-skilled specialist" a relatively short time ago will be broadly available in working population. (There will still be specialists at frontier.)
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Remember in living memory that people were given year-long classes to use MS Word. Most did not graduate these classes with meaningful proficiency. McDonalds used to train people to operate registers, for weeks. In 2018 McDonalds can expect *customers* to use POS w/in seconds.
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becoming an engineer is kind of like immigrating to a country that has 20% GDP growth annually
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With a free passport to the next five countries to hit that level, too. (People really, really undervalue how programming ability makes you better at substantially every other white collar occupation.)
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