{"id":2025,"date":"2016-07-11T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T11:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/will-you-really-have-to-retire-at-50-not-if-youre-smart-about-marketing-your-experience-and-your-lifestyle\/"},"modified":"2016-07-11T11:34:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T11:34:00","slug":"will-you-really-have-to-retire-at-50-not-if-youre-smart-about-marketing-your-experience-and-your-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/will-you-really-have-to-retire-at-50-not-if-youre-smart-about-marketing-your-experience-and-your-lifestyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Will you really have to retire at 50? Not if you’re smart about marketing and repackaging your skills"},"content":{"rendered":"
OK – we all kind of know this. But where this gets interesting is where the discussion shifts to what he constitutes “expensive” workers. <\/p>\n “Thanks to advancements in technology, jobs are becoming more automated. Assuming that we can eventually automate all basic jobs and allow artificial intelligence to conduct more skilled work, there will only be a need for a small group of educated, experienced, but inexpensive workers.”<\/em><\/p>\n Group A is under serious threat as our automation impact model suggests, Group B is where we anticipate further job creation, and Group C could likely get completely eliminated – and could happen alarmingly quickly. As Len points out:<\/p>\n “During the Industrial Revolution, millions of jobs were eliminated because of machines or development of new products that made others obsolete. The difference between the technological advancements of the industrial revolution versus those of today is that half or more of all future product and service needs won’t be replaced by humans but by computers. Some may argue that we’ll create more jobs to replace those lost, but the last ten years are a clear indication that computation and automation are advancing faster than the invention of new products or industries that require (human) labor”. <\/em><\/p>\nI think I just read one of the most (brutally) honest and practical articles<\/a> by a guy called Len Kendall, an LA-based marketing executive with a clear penchant for writing. His piece is based on two premises:<\/p>\n
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So what counts as “expensive” workers?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
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