I completely agree that we all need to think of ourselves as a company of one or an “entrepreneur of the self”! I think the future will be full of “portfolio careers”
What’s missing in this essay is the words “part of…”
Or parts of. Parts of work have and will change.
Parts of industry will be different because of AI. But there are and will be, for many years to come, jobs for humans.
Humans have developed over millennia, and they want to interact (be served by, nursed by, taught by, etc) other humans. AI and tech will help people do their jobs better, but the vehicle mechanic, nurse, school teacher, plumber, electrician, builder, police officer… and many more…will still be doing a recognisable job in many years time.
Appreciate the matter-of-fact tone of this synthesis as much as the content. I’m finding that wide-eyed realism is often conflated with pernicious doomerism, as though thinking through all the disruptions ahead is akin to siding with the robots over the humans. We’ve got a lot of new problems to solve, so let’s solve them.
1. Do you see countries that have a nationalised health care service benefiting more from this shift to work than a country like America that forces Full time benefit focused employee models?
2. How do you see this impacting the way people save for retirement, especially as counties age and social security struggles to exist?
Yes believe the US will need to move to portable health care or it’s a disaster in the waiting
And we will see extended work lives, changes in social security where they will invest out of treasuries into equities and individuals increasingly taking more risks for return ,
I completely agree that we all need to think of ourselves as a company of one or an “entrepreneur of the self”! I think the future will be full of “portfolio careers”
What’s missing in this essay is the words “part of…”
Or parts of. Parts of work have and will change.
Parts of industry will be different because of AI. But there are and will be, for many years to come, jobs for humans.
Humans have developed over millennia, and they want to interact (be served by, nursed by, taught by, etc) other humans. AI and tech will help people do their jobs better, but the vehicle mechanic, nurse, school teacher, plumber, electrician, builder, police officer… and many more…will still be doing a recognisable job in many years time.
Paul yes. I believe all jobs will be done either by machine or machine and human except things like massages. Medicine to Therapy all of them.
Appreciate the matter-of-fact tone of this synthesis as much as the content. I’m finding that wide-eyed realism is often conflated with pernicious doomerism, as though thinking through all the disruptions ahead is akin to siding with the robots over the humans. We’ve got a lot of new problems to solve, so let’s solve them.
Big changes ahead, for sure. I’m wondering how you see mental health factoring into this?
A challenge given workbis central to a persons identity
Thank you for another great post. Two questions:
1. Do you see countries that have a nationalised health care service benefiting more from this shift to work than a country like America that forces Full time benefit focused employee models?
2. How do you see this impacting the way people save for retirement, especially as counties age and social security struggles to exist?
Yes believe the US will need to move to portable health care or it’s a disaster in the waiting
And we will see extended work lives, changes in social security where they will invest out of treasuries into equities and individuals increasingly taking more risks for return ,
How we approach the future is all about perspective! https://open.substack.com/pub/growingupaspen/p/the-hybrid-road-ahead?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web