Submitted by Ok-Cartoonist5349 t3_1177bx9 in Futurology
Immolation_E t1_j9ay0fl wrote
It doesn't matter to the people who lost jobs due to the tech if they can't take those jobs. In the long run there may be a net benefit, but to the individuals hurt by it there is no benefit.
rileyoneill t1_j9c26qf wrote
30% of tech workers admit to working fewer than 4 hours per day. I have friends and family in this industry, many working in Silicon Valley. Some of them are workaholics and some barely do anything. I have heard of project managers, who seem to exclusively be very attractive young women, who barely work 2-3 hours per day but make more than a doctor.
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These tech companies are so flush with cash and they don't want to pay dividends to investors so they were hiring huge amounts of people. I knew people who got caught up with this and they would claim that the job is not as difficult as Starbucks but paid 5 times as much.
The work horses in tech will mostly always be employed.
ianitic t1_j9e0unm wrote
Of coding, that sounds typical. A lot of us don't feel like meetings and such, are productive or like work. Not to say I'm sometimes not "actively working" as well. I'd say we bring our work home in our heads longer than most though.
In any case, average office worker works less than 3hrs/day https://www.inc.com/melanie-curtin/in-an-8-hour-day-the-average-worker-is-productive-for-this-many-hours.html
Anecdotally, I'd say that this is true as well.
misconfigbackspace t1_j9bxi2k wrote
This has been true at every point in modern history (since the invention of the gun and the European voyages into the world began)
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