Thread by @MSS3RosaFerreum

Generally speaking, this is because we, as a society, created a specialized manager class from people who are educated to be bean counters but not educated enough to be bookkeepers, accountants, etc. This manager class isn’t educated in the craft they are managing.

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https://twitter.com/lisselisheva/status/1442156068511961088

They are not old masters or, necessarily, the original founding entrepreneur who did it all in the beginning. Even if it is the founding entrepreneur, there are some fields (like web design) which are too technical for the typical entrepreneur to even attempt to dabble in.

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In order to address the aspects of the business in which the entrepreneur is incompetent that entrepreneur attempts to buy an expert in the field by hiring them.

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How do you evaluate competence when you know nothing about the craft or are not yourself expert in the craft?

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You look at the purported quality of the school that educated the potential hire, you look at the purported experience of the potential hire, and you ask for references from a potential hire so you can get a measure in a form that you can understand.

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This is why hiring even semiskilled work is a bloody mess and it has even impacted the hiring process of unskilled work where there is a glut of workers and not enough jobs. No one asks for portfolios or work samples in the hiring process except the best employers.

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Asking for actual evidence of competence (such as portfolios, code samples, or writing samples, etc., or tests of vocational performance during the hiring process) is what sets the best employers apart from every other employer. This is why job-seeking is a mess.

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There is a path to fix this job-seeking quagmire, but the United States of America 🇺🇸 isn’t prepared for it and it may be too late to implement that path to fix the managerial class (and resulting quagmire) in a way that would make a difference in the lives of most folks.

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This is because a great plurality (nearly a majority) of workers will likely become unemployable (in the best timeline) or menially employed for the sake of appearing to perform truly pointless work (in the worst timeline).

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(See, e.g., and regarding the coming unemployability crisis.)

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@threader_app, please compile.

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