Life is surrounded by nuances. The COVID pandemic was the best time to be alive if you were a tech worker and your family was safe and healthy. Now COVID is over, so does most of the value of our intellectual work.

> Now COVID is over

Ask anybody with newly acquired Long COVID / PASC if COVID is over.

https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-co...

By that logic, not even the Black Death is really over.

That makes no sense. Sorry you succumbed to the aforementioned propaganda.

How does it not make any sense? there are 1-2k cases of bubonic plague reported per year in the world

Long COVID is vastly underdiagnosed.

"Life is surrounded by nuances".

Sure. I agree. But the statement I was responding to was not nuanced.

But when was the best time, then?

From a global point of view, we've been living in relative peace for almost 100 years.

Housing is a problem, but child mortality isn't. Tech overlords are a problem, but no one is testing a nuclear bomb every week. The Koreas are still technically at war, but tuberculosis deaths have plummeted over the last century. The Cold War is over, but people are still dying in wars around the globe. US imperialism around the world is finally showing signs of decline, but now China manufactures practically everything, and other developing nations are struggling to compete.

It's always the best and the worst time to be alive somewhere in the world. It's up to you to decide what you want to make of it, anyway.

I was a tech worker; my family emerged safe and healthy. COVID completely sucked. So much death, uncertainty, anxiety, and mistrust. I think we're all still trying to figure out the impact COVID had on our health, society, and culture.

This is exactly my point: it sucked hard because we were afraid of dying, but not afraid of becoming obsolete. In fact, I believe that you, just like me, were rejecting recruiters on LinkedIn on daily basis.

Now it sucks because we're afraid of not being able to provide for our families in the near future.

It will always suck in some way, so we should REALLY focus on _what_ we can do. Otherwise, we'll be consumed by anxiety until the day we die.

But everyone's been fired and are out of jobs -- how is this the best time to be alive?

If you're a Google SRE with 7 figure comp, doing experiments with agent swarms you don't need to pay for, with healthy case of Dunning-Kruger... then maybe it is.

Oh yes, as he also concluded: "You can just do things." aka delegate random tasks to Agents that may even make it to the HN front page!

That line also made me do a double-take. No doubt this is cool and all, but that's a strange blanket take away.