The Year? 2024 Your Goal? Realize Where Things Are Heading
1: Reset yourself.
Forget everything.
Everything school, media, family, and friends tried to convince you during your life makes little sense anymore. The year is 2024. Wondering why? Well. Look around you. Do things make sense anymore, or is the future looking more and more like a Blade Runner movie each day? It is hard to tell at this point.
Reality?
You just got out of bed and brushed your teeth. After not talking with your semi-autistic friend Jimmy, you grow up. He texts you out of the blue. You already knew Jimmy was not the smartest. But why is he texting you to tell you he just made 5x on a no-utility random frog coin left you surprised?
It takes a few moments to realize what is going on. Since your intelligence level is above Jimmy’s (or at least how you feel), you decided to ignore it and move on with your day. Being a good friend, you congratulate him on the money he made. After spending 49 minutes in the traffic to your workplace. Your phone notifications go off. Your boring friend Timmy, who can't shut up, is bothering you again. You understand his remote job allows him to have the freedom to send multiple texts to multiple groups and bother all of you. Not only that, but he always had too much energy for you. After ignoring the text for the next two minutes, you read what he sent.
“I just got a new job.”
Being confused for a second. Knowing that Timmy recently took on his new role and that it would not make much sense for him to change it,. Considering how happy he was when he got it,. You curiously ask him what is going on. After 15 seconds, Timmy gets back, confirming he is keeping the old job and having another one. Question marks are all over your head. After a few more seconds, he sends another text explaining that he will be running two 9-to-5 gigs.
Having enough time in the day to work on something else. After thinking about it for a good 20 minutes, you are wondering why anyone would want to work two jobs simultaneously. Imagine having so much free time and not using it to play Fortnite with the boys or watch Netflix while you are getting paid.
What a miserable life you are living!
The workday is coming to an end. You have decided to open Twitter to scroll for two minutes while waiting for confirmation from your boss. The PowerPoint you created took you hours, considering that the Excel model you have prepared is not fully automatic. After liking a few Pepe memes and two semi-attractive girl funnels, which you don’t even know are funnels. A video of the Nvidia CEO discussing the AI takeover. Saying things along the lines that software developers are going to be replaced. Your favourite newsletter just sent the email, “Your future partner could be AI.”. Remember, you should have reached out to that girl you met two months ago. Maybe she still remembers what you are telling yourself. Slack notification sounds go off. Your boss calls you to fix a few typos he found in the ppt.
The work is finally done. You are thinking to yourself how lucky you are because you will not have to manually change your Excel model. There are only a few more amendments to the PowerPoint, and you are good to go. Something you will take care of once you come back home. On your way home, you are thinking to yourself how lucky you are to be working in finance. Imagine being a developer and getting replaced by a machine that can print out codes. Bunch of losers.
After ordering McDonald’s using 4 clicks on your phone. You have decided to finish up your PowerPoint, which should not take you more than 45 minutes. Timmy is texting the group chat, asking if anyone is up to hitting the bars. Being the first one to reply, you tell the group you can't join them because you must finish the PowerPoint for tomorrow. After a second, Timmy gets back to you, replying.
“Why don't you automate it using Python?”
I'm trying not to get upset about Timmy telling you how to do your job. You politely answer him that learning Python and setting it up would be a waste of time in your case. Two minutes later, Jimmy sends a screenshot to the group showing that he is now at zero with his dog meme coin and that he is staying in tonight to make it up.
Realization
After lying in bed, you are thinking to yourself. Am I the only one who is normal, or is everyone else crazy at this point? Did capitalism make us all so dumb that most of us are betting on no-utility animal coins, or did technology take things too far? What about that girl from the bar? Maybe tomorrow. Tomorrow, I should also check out that AI partner article. It sounds interesting considering how busy I am and can't find anyone. For a brief second, you are thinking to yourself. How would you live if you worked two jobs like Timmy? Would it be worth it? Maybe that remote thing is not that bad. You see yourself having more free time. At the same time, you think that you would have to become better at manoeuvring around technology to get a remote role. Something to think about, after all.
What is tech after capitalism?