Would have voted For the proposition had the word "forever" been omitted.
In the short term, the pandemic has been financial a boon for tech workers. I've gotten double-digit percent raises in each of the past two years; could have gotten even more by job-hopping, but the current place suits me.
However -- the same technologies that we deployed to maintain business and social function during the pandemic could ultimately be used to replace us with a mix of cheaper foreign labor and AI.
Could that improve our low-cost replacements' lives? Possibly; but it's more likely that they will toil in yet another digital sweatshop. Meanwhile, we end up fighting each other, Hunger Games style, for the dwindling handful of tech jobs that require skilled hands on site -- while the oversupply of talent vs jobs drives wages downward.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
