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1. harimau777 · 1790791864 · focus · HN ↗

   Have any of these articles actually addressed HOW software developers are supposed to retrain for good jobs? Personally I have neither the money nor the years to go back to college to get a livable job.

   1. bryanrasmussen · 1790795395 · focus · HN ↗

      well, I suppose the same way that other people whose jobs were lost due to automation over the years were supposed to retrain for good jobs? I doubt they had the money or years to go back to college to get a livable job either.

      1. zokier · 1790795819 · focus · HN ↗

         In the past there was always demand for "unskilled" (manual) labor where displaced workers could land to without long (re)training, and possibly even gain skills on the job. But that job marked has dramatically diminished especially in the west; there are only so many burgers to be flipped. Somewhat famously during industrial revolution displaced agricultural workers (e.g. farmhands) ended up mass-migrating to cities doing factory work under extremely exploitative conditions. And that never truly got resolved, we just brushed the issue under the rug by pushing manual labor to third world countries where the problems could remain out of sight.
      2. harimau777 · 1790798984 · focus · HN ↗

         Generally speaking they didn't. They either got lucky or their quality of life plummeted.

         1. bryanrasmussen · 1790842559 · focus · HN ↗

            hence why I put "supposed"
      3. pixl97 · 1790808863 · focus · HN ↗

         Hence why we had things like the rust belt with excessively high drug use.

         1. yimmo_7 · 1790862736 · focus · HN ↗

            You're just not creative or entrepreneurial enough to see the opportunity in it. Just become the drug dealer.

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