will
@w
for whatever reason, humans really struggle to understand and appreciate knowledge work imo there are very few fake jobs in the economy https://x.com/kelseytuoc/status/1917287466983383460
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keccers
@keccers.eth
None of the work she’s articulating in the thread feels high value to me, maybe due to my own biases How nice does her site really need to look? What efficiencies is she missing out on from some well placed automations?
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will
@w
I don't obviously know but I've followed her for ~long enough to take her at her word that if the work doesn't get done there's ~"direct and immediate suffering [of the business]" personally, i think this reflects most of my experiences in startups relatively well so I'm biased
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keccers
@keccers.eth
It is essential work to a business yes but not worth the salary knowledge workers command today. I say this against my own interests
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will
@w
> not worth the salary knowledge workers command today what's your one paragraph expansion of this? i generally feel like the market is relatively efficient here
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keccers
@keccers.eth
To me, at least to some degree, compensation for these roles remains high due to credentialism and inertia, not actual scarcity or business impact The salary bands to me seem tied to proximity to capital more than anything else. I believe the market has failed here as actual societally load bearing jobs often are not compensated well at all Now with AI in the mix the value of the FTE in certain roles feels unclear. There is this hot new consultant type job I am seeing where they bring in someone to basically automate as much as possible to keep knowledge work headcount low The email marketing manager does seem more “worth it” to me than the financier, whose whole job is information asymmetry and creates no new value ever
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