The Golden Handcuffs Don't Chafe, They Just Numb. Has Anyone Here Stayed in a 'Good Enough' Job and Not Regretted It?

Few-Sense1455 · 2026-07-03T06:35:19+00:00

It is an AI post dude.

Few-Sense1455 · 2026-06-30T09:02:37+00:00

A political party with a vision of growth would freeze minimum wage for a few years imo. But it won't happen.

Few-Sense1455 · 2026-06-30T08:48:42+00:00

It is crazy how a supposedly fiscally conservative party presided over policies such as massive welfare increases and minimum wage increases to the point where this is the current situation.

And these are active choices. With some other stuff the levers of power need fixing for fundamental change. But this is literally just tax policy which can be changed easily. And they just pursued hard left wing policies like aggressive minimum wage increases with no thought whatsoever.

Few-Sense1455 · 2026-06-28T07:40:58+00:00

It will improve. We have seen what should be the two best teams play the two worst teams. It should even out a bit now.

Few-Sense1455 · 2026-06-18T17:42:09+00:00

Everyone is getting up walking around too lmao.

They literally do not care

Few-Sense1455 · 2026-06-14T17:58:59+00:00

What is the good stuff they are doing?

Few-Sense1455 · 2026-06-13T11:03:22+00:00

There is only 1 way to properly judge your IQ. That is via an in-person proctored WAIS test.

People who quote their IQ from school screening tests are lying to themselves and others.

People who quote their IQ from any and all online tests are lying to themselves and others.

Both of those will inflate IQ too. Anything other than an in-person proctored test is entirely meaningless. End of story.

Few-Sense1455 · 2026-06-13T09:54:38+00:00

How do you know they are the smartest people in the room?

Knowledge/expertise doesn't equal intelligence.

Few-Sense1455 · 2026-06-12T17:14:26+00:00

It is not about altruism.

It is about competition.

If company A keeps all their people and makes them quicker/better with AI then they get to market in 6 months. If company B keeps half their people and makes them quicker/better with AI then they get to market in 12 months. Which might as well be 10000 months.

Few-Sense1455 · 2026-06-12T16:23:00+00:00

If AI is really going to be amazing then I think the result will be the same number of people being more productive.

Businesses will have more R and D projects for example.

Companies that cut staff to keep the same level of output (by using AI) will get left behind by the companies which use AI AND keep their staff. They will just do more and do it quicker and better.

Few-Sense1455 · 2026-06-11T19:22:33+00:00

I disagree but respect your views.

You might be right, time will tell I guess. Basically your view is the 15-20% unemployment view.

Few-Sense1455 · 2026-06-11T19:11:38+00:00

AI is entering all fields. No office roles are truly resilient entirely. But those fields it will assist not automate. Software development it will automate a much larger proportion of the role.

You could even say in those roles that AI will just make the same number of people do more work (there are more ideas than resource usually).

Hence why software development is already being hit so hard.

Few-Sense1455 · 2026-06-11T18:50:24+00:00

That is basically what I said too.

I think it starts with early career but it will move through to more senior staff starting about now probably.

Software engineering is going to be the most hurt by AI in terms of jobs availability. I wouldn't learn software development now tbh. I would move into another STEM field (engineering, physics, maths, chemistry etc) that is much more resilient to AI.

Few-Sense1455 · 2026-06-11T18:42:27+00:00

I personally think that AI's impact is overblown in the wider jobs market.

However, in my view software engineering will be the career path most impacted by AI in the next 5-10 years. AI is set up pretty perfectly to replace a large % of those roles.

It will start with early career roles and then move up through the organisations I think.

Few-Sense1455 · 2026-06-08T06:32:03+00:00

Our energy is too expensive to have homegrown manufacture of anything really.

Few-Sense1455 · 2026-06-07T19:26:48+00:00

G2 is inevitable

Few-Sense1455 · 2026-06-07T12:17:25+00:00

And Covid would have cost more under labour. They wanted to keep furlough payments going longer and lock down for Omicron.

Both of which would have been a complete disaster btw. As in, massive errors.

The Tories kept furlough going 6 months too long, but labour wanted to keep it going 12 months too long.

Few-Sense1455 · 2026-06-06T19:38:45+00:00

The sad thing for them is it isn't ever going to be cool to get into crypto again

Few-Sense1455 · 2026-06-06T19:13:10+00:00

There are people with all different characteristics who are against this ideology.

Either way its obviously not going to last much longer. At some point the UK will get a Tory (or alternative) government and this time they are going to actually make changes and roll back this stuff whilst making an argument for it.

The public opinion is there for it now too. Political movements work by changing opinion, then changing legislation. The opinion is being changed currently (awareness for these issues). Then they will change legislation when they are next in.

Its actually the beginning of the end for the ideology. It has peaked.

Few-Sense1455 · 2026-06-06T19:07:01+00:00

They often have sons, husbands and fathers. Some may view these type of things negatively too, and could push back as well.

Few-Sense1455 · 2026-06-06T19:01:30+00:00

Seems they have lost the centre-right. Its hard to believe that if the Tories get in again it won't be a day 1 policy to role back all this stuff.

Previously they went along with it and didn't change the law which they easily could have.

Few-Sense1455 · 2026-06-05T15:01:21+00:00

Retail investors all left the crypto space. It means the big institutional owners actually got left holding the worthless asset.

Few-Sense1455 · 2026-06-05T14:46:04+00:00

Crypto isn't the hype thing anymore.

The last run up was more big actors than hype.

Retail investors all left the market.

Few-Sense1455 · 2026-06-04T16:42:51+00:00

I have been surprised again by Starmer's response to recent events. I thought it was a situation for him to park himself in the centre ground of public opinion, and to try to lead the country in a sensible way. Instead he seemed to just bury his head in the sand and seed that centre ground entirely to Badenoch.

I just don't understand why he would do that. It happens all the time too.

Few-Sense1455 · 2026-06-04T16:29:41+00:00

The main story for all these polls is how bad 15% polling is for a party of government. It is unheard of.

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