[HN Gopher] The Problem with the Job Market
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       The Problem with the Job Market
        
       Author : sabrina_ramonov
       Score  : 7 points
       Date   : 2024-08-26 20:16 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (danielmiessler.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (danielmiessler.com)
        
       | gedy wrote:
       | The thing is, work has always been dull and a chore. I think
       | what's different is now basically everybody works, and home and
       | relationships are secondary to "your career" especially two
       | income households. It sucks and it's hollow if you try to revolve
       | your life around a job.
        
       | cryptoboy2283 wrote:
       | > Let's say your company pays for 215 software products that cost
       | us $420,000 a year to own and use. Nobody would object to
       | somebody looking at that list of software finding redundancies
       | and canceling those licenses.
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       | That's simply not true. Big companies have special vendor
       | management departments, their incentives are literally built
       | around cost optimizations. Smaller startups have CEO looking at
       | their billing and complaining about "why do we pay so much to
       | vendor X?", check the most recent rant by DHH on Datadog:
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       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41357726
        
       | viccis wrote:
       | Saving anyone a click if they don't like this stuff: It turns
       | into an AI millenarianism article partway through.
        
       | huitzitziltzin wrote:
       | Deeply superficial musings about AI and the labor market, all
       | while missing very basic points about the substitutability (or
       | not!) of labor and capital. Very safe to skip!
        
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