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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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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If only those people could be taught the difference between the blue googles and the green googles.
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I started at McDonalds in 1984, almost no time was spent training on the register (~ 1 hour), it was more about Cust serv & other activities. You were expected to be productive by the end of your 1st shift & not need assistance by the 3rd. And yes, that was good training
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Is coding “quickly becoming blue-collar work”? (I don’t know who this person is, just saw the screenshot. Honest question)pic.twitter.com/3Pa6SGqkoR
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Also, without trying to be particularly woke, there are entire *rich* social groups whose access to technology is at least a decade behind the trad "30 year old white man" demographic, and as they grow, creates new product space.
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