It is insane how much more productive humans have become since computers/automation entered most workplaces. Yet almost all of that increased productivity has been going to the stockholders and executives for decades upon decades.
An Example: CAD engineering/modelling software has made it possible for a single civil engineer to do the work of a dozen engineers/draftsman. It used to take days/weeks to do small changes for schematics, now it is almost instant.
Civil engineers are paid roughly $40-50 an hour, which adjusted for inflation is about the same as it was in the 1970's.
Yep. I make $30/hr and can basically design an underground network (with revisions) for a medium sized city in a couple months using some of the automation tools available in ArcGIS. Boss man doesn't know what we do and only comes into the office to complain about us not making him enough money between his bi-monthly $50,000 family ski trips.
It's legitimately insane how much work even an entry level draftsman/draftswoman can do now. Especially with Open Data and Arc. like literally millions of feet of design per drafter per year for someone who hadn't even touched the software before they started the job.
That kinda design footage used to be reserved for entire teams of engineers, now it's just some 23 year old kid who learned how to use a computer to record an album in college getting paid $20-30/hr
It is insane how much more productive humans have become since computers/automation entered most workplaces. Yet almost all of that increased productivity has been going to the stockholders and executives for decades upon decades.
An Example: CAD engineering/modelling software has made it possible for a single civil engineer to do the work of a dozen engineers/draftsman. It used to take days/weeks to do small changes for schematics, now it is almost instant.
Civil engineers are paid roughly $40-50 an hour, which adjusted for inflation is about the same as it was in the 1970's.
Yep. I make $30/hr and can basically design an underground network (with revisions) for a medium sized city in a couple months using some of the automation tools available in ArcGIS. Boss man doesn't know what we do and only comes into the office to complain about us not making him enough money between his bi-monthly $50,000 family ski trips.
It's legitimately insane how much work even an entry level draftsman/draftswoman can do now. Especially with Open Data and Arc. like literally millions of feet of design per drafter per year for someone who hadn't even touched the software before they started the job.
That kinda design footage used to be reserved for entire teams of engineers, now it's just some 23 year old kid who learned how to use a computer to record an album in college getting paid $20-30/hr