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The Old Way

For decades, the narrative for obtaining a decent life with an upper middle class income status wasn't only effortlessly finely ingrained in societies but appeared as a comfortable path for the majority of the population. People were expected to go through a defined curriculum of formal education and structures of learning. Apprenticeship and vocational trades were reinforced as part of standards for skill acquisition and for growing one's self identity and essence.

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This societal blueprint for economic growth was largely instituted by the start of the Second Industrial Revolution (Technological) The growth burst of factories and production line across Europe and the Americas required a well skilled workforce who could follow & comprehend orders in a timely and predictable manner. Universities were breeding grounds for groundbreaking research and knowledge democratisation. Ambitious graduates started companies at the backdrop of their acquire knowledge and skills. The economic engine of the prosperity for large part of history had just begun.

Follow The Money

Today, the above case isn't entirely true. Knowledge is free and available everywhere. Individuals at the comfort of their homes and workplace can pick up skills and trades that would have in the past required tremendous amount of time and financial investment. Big Tech made our attention span short will convert each second of it into currencies which sell for enormous amount per unit price. Go out into the wild, pickup a camera, be consistent for less than a 1000 days and just like that your life changes without anyone's permission. Find a niche market and draft your business idea to a stateless machine on a cloud somewhere in Arizona and you have a product that could potentially make you a millionaire over a night. The old order is dead, a new one has arrived.

Pacified market

In democractic and capital markets, value has always been rewarded by speed and cost. Consumers have almost always had the rights for the

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