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Yes, what you are describing is both true and also highlights how bankrupt we are as a society

Just because things are this way doesn't mean they should be or that we should just accept that they must always be this way

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Now I work in consulting AWS + app dev as a staff consultant leading ironed and unless you work in the internal consulting department at AWS (been there done that as blue badge RSU earning employee) or GCP, it’s almost impossible to get a job as an American as anything but sales or a lead. It’s a race to the bottom with everyone hiring in LatAm if you are lucky (same time zone more willing to push back against bad idea and more able to handle ambiguity) or India.

Everything is a race to the bottom. The only way I can justify not being in presales is because I can now do the work of 3 people with AI.

A Russian word for this is "пофигизм" -- the cynical belief that everything is fucked, so why bother.

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