Ramesh Venkatraman
Ramesh Venkatraman

@rameshvenkatram

4 tweets 8 reads Mar 27, 2024
Corporate careers are aspirational because people have benchmarked success with salary packages & material possessions. In order for other "jobs" to become popular we will need them to be seen as aspirational - one is obviously salary the other is a market for them.
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At the moment no one wants such jobs by choice but will take it up when those are the only options. Why is a carpenter paid a fraction of what a coder gets in an office is a question to be addressed. Perhaps because code is a volume game, & carpentry is a value game.
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A code is plug & play, carpentry is creation from scratch each time. In an ideal world the latter would be valued over the former, but we do not live in an ideal world. Schools & colleges sell the former to the children because it's profitable for them.
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Unless people start thinking radically different from how they think now, I see no change happening. We are only spiralling further down the tunnel with no light at the end of it

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