I forget where I read that revolutions tend to occur in the spring/summer because that is when state policy reveals failures at the time of harvest, there’s not enough food, and people lash out at the their rulers.
I have been wondering a lot about my career path, lately.
Started as a biologist, then a lab techie, then a biostatistician, and eventually an IT person. I recently left (was pressured out, essentially) a soul sucking job at a mediocre healthcare IT shop and I have zero desire to go back to that field.
We have a plethora of high quality data available to make important decisions... But as we've seen with at least COVID, the bottleneck seems to be more cultural than technical 😒
While adapting my skill set to energy could be healthier emotionally than staying in (returning to?) the healthcare space, the reality is the corporate oligarchy will not hesitate to sacrifice workers and entire families in the line of profiteering.
If rolling brownouts through low-income residential neighborhoods will free up a few TW to power shitty AI marketing algorithms for PepsiCo, it could well become my charge to implement it. Is this any better than complictly concealing a pandemic???
Obviously the only sensible option is to give up entirely on any sort of professional career, try to get a job at Amazon until I'm replaced by a robot, and die penniless in a gutter waiting for govt benefits that simply can't be funded because the corporation cannot be taxed.
Amazon probably wouldn't hire me because of an AI algorithm (I have a very ethnic looking last name and high education level) so I should try to come up with another plan.
Just thinking about how wrong the phrase is, "You have to earn respect".
No, you have to earn disrespect. As a human being, I'm naturally going to respect you if I don't know you. It's when you earn my disrespect, that I'll stop showing respect.
I give people respect freely, until they prove to me that they don't deserve it.