Friedman: PhD, Poor, Hungry, Driven

The New York Times' Tom Friedman writes about the changing workplace, a landscape of freelancers making peanuts competing with robots making nothing. He exaggerates, of course, but his kernel of truth is still disturbing:

The hyperconnected world is now a challenge to white-collar workers. They have to compete with a bigger pool of cheap geniuses — some of whom are people and some are now robots, microchips and software-guided machines.

The top gun fighter pilot officer is replaced by a faceless enlisted kid in a cubicle flying a drone with a joystick.