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Re:Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Leaked Stanford Talk by RyanHamilton on Friday August 16, 2024 @11:55AM (#41267498)
Unfortunately not. Nurses, doctors, bin men, car mechanics, plumbers can all be essential at times but rarely pay large bonuses.
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Re:Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Leaked Stanford Talk by fooker on Monday August 19, 2024 @10:15AM (#41291231)
It's the scale.

One important blue collar worker can help a limited number of people at a time, usually one.

One line of code can affect what billions of people are doing.

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