In the absence of full-time opportunities, individuals will be aggregating contract work to build a portfolio of revenue, and employers will look to outsource on a project basis in order to maximize their financial flexibility while navigating this new reality.
And now there’s what [Venkatesh Rao] called the cryptobourgeoisie. There’s effectively an information advantage that young people can have that potentially allows them to capture some of the value that the Boomers have.
People feeling alone in their interests has always been true to a certain extent, but the internet has made it much worse. The excess of information allows you to travel down your path of interest with mad velocity. On the internet, Wonderland is recursive, with rabbit holes opening up to yet more rabbit holes; you never stop falling. And the... See more
-All of this is to say, livestreaming the technology is here, but livestreaming as a medium is not... Fundamentally what I’m pushing back on is saying that a technology will get adoption because it is big in China, when really we should be asking what made it catch on there in the first place.