Some of the most valuable companies in the world right now are remnants of the dot com crash, Facebook (Meta), Google, Microsoft, Oracle, etc. By this logic the "AI companies" will go bust and coalesce into a few winners who will go on to become the worlds first multi trillion dollar companies and dominate the economic landscape for the next couple of decades.
Why are we talking about “jobs” like it’s some singular thing? Is the best we can do to explain what we think might happen to line up every person who has something that can be described as a job, left to right by experience, and then decide which part is going to be mowed down by AI?
It’s just going to be way more complex than that. Some people are going to have more work than they know what to do with. Some jobs are going away, some people will see zero change. It’s going to depend on what you do, what industry you’re in, where you live, your experience. We can see some vague outlines of what is coming but the only thing we can be certain of, at this point, is there will be a lot of change.
This is a gross simplification of the law. There isn't some "gotcha" like some schoolyard disagreement. "I gotcha! You said it! Derik heard it you gotta do it now! Do it Do it! Do it!"
Yes, you can enforce a verbal contract. You'll need to show what exactly you agreed to which is going to be vague due to the nature of a verbal contract. You'll need to show an offer and acceptance, consideration, intention to create legal relations, legal capacity, and certainty. So no, you can't offer to buy your buddy's car for $1 when you're at the bar grabbing a beer and have them say, "haha, deal" and expect to get their car.
I've learned not to expect anything from being an early employee. It's right in the name, you're an employee. Expecting some sort of consideration for being early is naive. Every time you receive a paycheck you and your employer are even and you shouldn't expect anything more.
This is true, except in the usual case where early employees are made offers that include some presumption of partial ownership of the company through stock grants or options, often with a corresponding decrease in salary that scales inversely with the strength of the founder's reality distortion field.
There's no such thing as presumptive partial ownership. Lando had a presumptive partial ownership and if you do you should expect the Vader treatment, "I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further".
America needs to rethink what it means to be ______. Fill in the blank. It's a long list. I'm actually surprised it's taken us so long to get here. We have experienced a societal transformation as large and arguably larger than the Industrial Revolution and by comparison it's been fairly peaceful so far but the strains are finally starting to show. There seems to be a fairly pervasive feeling that the way things are is not working anymore.
I was going to poke holes in how this person is simply substituting being career-obsessed with being engineering obsessed but this is like the engineer who looses touch with engineering theory being an approximation of the real world. Life just doesn't work this way. Where's the serendipity? Where's the real crap that happens in life? I don't see any mention of getting married, having children, the cancer diagnosis and years of chemo and fighting for life while still going to work so you can keep your healthcare, the divorce and custody battle with someone you spent half of your life with. Or the good stuff that just happens because you're in the right place at the right time that you never could have planned for. I think better advice would be finding a way to deal with how life throws you curve balls and you need to find a way to keep going. With advice like this you not only have to deal with a curve ball but also come to terms with how you've structured your life isn't going to work.
