“Are you taking the threat of job losses seriously, or will you wait to see if and when it happens?”
I don’t think people are ignoring the threat because it’s unlikely. I think they’re ignoring it because they can’t feel it yet. It not real!
There’s a strange psychological fog around this whole conversation: the future threat isn’t coming toward us. It’s the one we missed while we were looking the other way.
We’re not watching the train approach, I think we’ve already missed it. Everyone’s facing forward, waiting for signs. But the hit’s coming from behind. The job losses won’t feel sudden. They’ll feel invisible, until it’s too late to course-correct.
No one takes this seriously because the collapse hasn’t looked like a collapse yet. But I think we’re about to get slammed. And by the time it becomes visible, by the time it’s felt at scale—boom! It’ll already be too late to talk about whether we “saw it coming” because we’ll be watching lead the way!
This question for readers in this field notes …
“Are you taking the threat of job losses seriously, or will you wait to see if and when it happens?”
I don’t think people are ignoring the threat because it’s unlikely. I think they’re ignoring it because they can’t feel it yet. It not real!
There’s a strange psychological fog around this whole conversation: the future threat isn’t coming toward us. It’s the one we missed while we were looking the other way.
We’re not watching the train approach, I think we’ve already missed it. Everyone’s facing forward, waiting for signs. But the hit’s coming from behind. The job losses won’t feel sudden. They’ll feel invisible, until it’s too late to course-correct.
No one takes this seriously because the collapse hasn’t looked like a collapse yet. But I think we’re about to get slammed. And by the time it becomes visible, by the time it’s felt at scale—boom! It’ll already be too late to talk about whether we “saw it coming” because we’ll be watching lead the way!