02-02-2023, 12:07 PM
If I am to recognize a pattern in the generational pattern it is that trends can go only so far. Exponential growth always runs into resistance. Just think of the potential breeding of rabbits: the predators are out to eat the cute little bunnies.
People who have seen tech as an exemption from the worst that Corporate America can do are finding harsh reality the hard way. There are younger competitors with freshly-minted STEM degrees who have learned something more. In time everyone becomes a fogy and someone can run circles around him. So one goes from tech to something not so cutting-edge. My brother went from high-tech involving objects of high-value added per unit of material to the concrete business; concrete has one of the lowest ratios of value-added to mass of almost all objects manufactured.
People who have seen tech as an exemption from the worst that Corporate America can do are finding harsh reality the hard way. There are younger competitors with freshly-minted STEM degrees who have learned something more. In time everyone becomes a fogy and someone can run circles around him. So one goes from tech to something not so cutting-edge. My brother went from high-tech involving objects of high-value added per unit of material to the concrete business; concrete has one of the lowest ratios of value-added to mass of almost all objects manufactured.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.