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  • We miss the salary too.
  • Restructurings and AI are making entry-level work more efficient. But managers realize a lot is lost when people don’t get practice.
  • Not really. It's the new expectation of higher productivity decoupled from a proportional raise in wages that is the worst part of the AI revolution. If we didn't live in a corporatocracy we would see either everyone working less or getting paid more in proportion to productivity increase.
  • I don't miss the tedium. I miss the predictability, the normalcy. There is so much volatility now, and it's a little frightening.

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