Back in the 1990s there was a comic strip in Z Magazine where some child care workers were commiserating on their inability to afford childcare and that somehow the problem was caused by "capitalism".
A lack of "capitalism" is more like it. The automobile changed the world because Henry Ford spent money to build a car factory so productive that the workers there could afford to buy the cars they make and thus the car changes the world. In the case of child care there isn't any technical or business innovation that can make it affordable enough for the person who does the job so it will remain forever a service only the rich can afford.
From this and several other comments here, I think the next big play here is to build something to completely eradicate the bugs that are generated by these AI tools.
> AI arrived at a time when the shine has worn off the tech. Google got evil, Twitter was eviscerated by a clown who likes to make nazi salutes, Facebook plumbed depths of enshittification previously unknown to science.
Perhaps the most underrated point here. To add to this point, people think Gen Z love tech by default, they were first generation to make Facebook accounts as kids etc. but I actually believe they have grown up to be the most tech skeptic generation.
All those kids that made their Facebook accounts faking their age, deleted those accounts before actually turning 18.
Tech industry and tech founders are not seen as hip and cool anymore.
Yep, the whole industry is not in good place right now but tech is still a sure-fire way of netting $1Mil+ after a 5-10 year career, with the most freedom and in the most flexible way.
Several people I know who went to a good university and landed big tech/quant jobs early became millionaires (liquid 1,000,000) after 5 to 7 years. Some got lucky and reached this milestone way earlier.
Medicine takes 12+ years of education before bearing any fruit and finance has very little freedom.
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