Comment by seemaze
12 hours ago
There’s 1,000 established industries that don’t offer the rapid growth and pay outs of the modern tech ecosystem. I’m excited to see some of the current industrial backwaters soak up technical talent freed up by the SV AI brain drain.
To think we’ve handsomely paid our best and brightest the last few decades in pursuit of.. advertising?
> To think we’ve handsomely paid our best and brightest the last few decades in pursuit of.. advertising?
I think "efficiency" is more accurate there. Even post-Google/ad-tech-boom the overall trends that started decades earlier continued to be: (1) faster turnaround time on communications, (2) faster delivery of result artifacts, (3) faster knowledge of changes in the market and faster response.
Advertising is a particularly visible field with lots of money to throw at those things (active investment trading is another). But practically every other industry has chased those same things as well, all the way down to things like parking meters.
Personally I'm not convinced that this is such a great thing anyway - does anyone enjoy their boss messaging you at 11PM on any day they want whenever they get the fancy? - but that's the larger reason so much brainpower has been invested into it.
Hopefully the exodus from the tech industry won't kill demand for too many job markets that are close comfortable cousins to the tech world.
> don’t offer the rapid growth
How are these industries going to absorb new headcount without the revenue to support it?