Comment Re:Eventually that will trickle up to everybody (Score 1) 158
The question will remain: Will the people who work at call centers now, get into coding, do a bootcamp, and then work as a software developer or just a stable code money..... will these people understand that their circumstances might not exist by the time they have gotten 2-5 tiers up the ladder?
This question bothers me far more than thinking about the job loss, because it mirrors former events: There is a lot of workers who managed to get on the first steps in the industrial output before the outsourcing and the rust belt, who still thinks there are widget end labor that exist to climb the same ladder they have, and they might even have gotten a degree after working at said widget factory for a year or two with newfound appreciation. What do a economy look like, when the widget engineer thinks there will be more people him, and he just accidentally climbed the ladder as it was extended far far out of reach?
The reason to think about this, is because the people who now climb the ladder might get enough clout or capital to later try to build an enterprise, or just some middle service niche. Without anybody climbing after, there are for the long term no competition climbing up.
Today if you want some manufacture or even assembly, you need to find out if there are special regions near where you live to see if its possible to get your feet wet. If they don't exist, well you don't. And the same extends trough out the economy.
I'd image even working at the mail room of one of the larger corporations back in the day gave you a decent idea on what was going on, even if resulted in education instead of competitive clout.
What I fear is
What do the economy look like when the only position left to climb is the sales people? And what happens when the pie finally starts shrinking on that end?