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The rise of working remotely and the need for skill guilds

by BrianOnHN on 10/27/22, 8:46 PM with 27 comments

• by ctvo on 10/28/22, 1:14 PM

  > Members of each guild would be experts in their field and be available to help other members with their work.

  So much complexity hidden in a single sentence. How? Who attests to the expertise? What's the incentive / mechanism for helping other members "with their work" -- what type of work? Professional work?

  "The rise of poverty and the need for income equality". Here's why, and these are the benefits. Here's 0 on how we achieve it.

• by dsign on 10/28/22, 8:41 AM

  I was reading "The Collapse of Complex Societies," and at some point the author states that complexity is correlated with (skill) specialization...

  There is nothing wrong with having specialized skills, but blindly believing that those skills will stay relevant forever is risky. And it's easy to fall into that trap when you find yourself an echo chamber of like-minded specialists.

  "Brian, lizard, come to our guild; we are all cool here, stop that silliness of keeping your eggs in your belly until they hatch. An asteroid is coming? Nah lizard, our guild is insured, full coverage, we will be fine, the market for the stomping trees skill-set is booming!"

• by paxys on 10/28/22, 1:06 AM

  You are describing...a subreddit (and hundreds of other similar forums).

• by kazinator on 10/28/22, 12:17 AM

  You can tell in a glance that that wonky image is AI-generated.

• by majamazz on 10/28/22, 4:36 PM

  How is this different to existing professional associations (for pretty much any profession) which usually end up charging ridiculous fees?

• by sph on 10/28/22, 5:04 PM

  Be aware that the author admitted (in these comments) that this post has been written with help of GPT-3. It's basically blog spam and/or a social experiment to see how many automated articles they can farm karma with.

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33370312

• by Cryptonic on 10/28/22, 6:07 AM

  Discord? Reddit?

• by PubliusMI on 10/27/22, 11:28 PM

  Like a consultancy owned by the employees?