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On the flip side, converting my tutorials to ebooks saved me from having to look for a job again. Been selling them for 6 years (with the last two years spent just to update them to newer software versions, improve examples, new cover images, etc). Of course, I have the advantage of living in a developing country but selling to an international audience (just $200/month to pay my bills).

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Living in a high income country, where $200 is well within monthly fluctuation, this situation makes me wonder if a little more telepresence might lead to us bifurcating into a world where the Eloi will know a tiny amount about how all of it works, and the Morlocks will know all about how a tiny amount of it works?

isn't this how it already works?

Designers* will know all about how it is all supposed to work

*personally prefer the term “designists”, but YMMV on that one

UPDATE:

Designori, as in Hesse’s magnum opus

It does seem to be already moving in that direction, yet there are still some discrepancies:

(a) living in a highly developed country (and having grown up in one almost as developed), according to this theory I ought to be going full Eloi and mechanical Turk'ing out (AI as "actually, indians"?) all the schlep work in my life to telepresent Morlocks, yet the little of my washing which I do send out goes (to the best of my knowledge) mostly to the historically-developed world.

(b) also to the best of my knowledge, current proto-Morlocks very rarely (or even never) eat current proto-Eloi.

I immediately thought of your work when reading your comment... And it turns out It's actually you. Nice!

I'm currently going through the CLI tutorials. No ebooks for the time being, as I'm just broke right know. Thanks for all the content. Keep it up!