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Hard for me to be objective about this so I believe you. I'm sure there's emotions there.



Just wanted to say I am personally feeling super emotional about this.

The scary things for me are:

A, this happened once before with my career path, I started my working life in journalism and the bottom fell out of the market in 2008 and never recovered. Newspapers went from paying £300 per 1000 words to paying nothing at all (but you get the kudos of being published for your copywriting career). I had a friend still hanging on in the industry around 2010. She was earning £16k per year for a job as the news-editor for two local newspapers in London. None of my friends still work on the industry. Even the BBC people I knew quit.

B, a lot of software is to do with automating the work of other people. If that work is itself so easy to do that even software developers aren’t needed, then what does that mean for all of the rest of society who get their jobs automated? Does the economy just crash and burn?


Someone still has to talk to the computer and make it do stuff. That’s us. That won’t change even if how we do it changes.




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