13“Entre‐Employee” and Temp‐Employee are the Only Career Options Left

A few weeks ago I visited a friend of mine who manages a trillion dollars. No joke. A trillion. If I told you the name of the family he worked for you would say, “they have a trillion? Really?” But that's what happens when ten million dollars compounds at 2% over 200 years.

He said, “look out the windows.” We looked out at all the office buildings around us. “What do you see?” he said. “I don't know.” “They're empty! All the cubicles are empty. The middle class is being hollowed out.” And I took a closer look. Entire floors were dark. Or there were floors with one or two cubicles but the rest empty. “It's all outsourced or technology has taken over for the paper shufflers,” ...

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