Jesper Ravnborg

@Kvartiboldmedie @nikalejandro19 Kan kun få lov til at høre podcast indtil 30 marts, selvom jeg er betalende medlem. Kommer ikke længere nye podcast op i hverken Spotify eller Apple podcast. Lidt irriterende

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Jesper Ravnborg @JesperReymann

3 months ago

@PayamSamar @nytimes Et godt bud 👀

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4 months ago

@MadsStrange_ Stærkt 🙏

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4 months ago

@MadsStrange_ 🙏

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SightBringer

@_The_Prophet__

4 months ago

⚡️The professional middle is entering a slow liquidation. That is what is coming. A lot of six figure workers still think they own scarce cognition. They do not. What they actually own is a seat inside an organizational diagram that is about to be rewritten. For twenty years, companies paid armies of people to summarize, coordinate, package, analyze, report, reassure, sell, recruit, and administratively maintain complexity. AI is about to reveal how much of that layer was never true scarcity. It was overhead wearing prestige. That is why this gets dangerous. The people in that layer built expensive lives around the illusion that their salaries were durable. Big mortgages. daycare. two income households. private schools. lifestyle debt. identity fused to title. So when the compression starts, it does not feel like a normal labor shock. It feels like your class position is being revoked. A person loses the job and suddenly realizes the house was never a fortress. It was a fixed-cost trap financed by continuity. The next 12 to 18 months are likely to be ugly because companies have finally been handed a believable excuse to thin the white collar herd. They can say AI. They can say efficiency. They can say macro caution. They can say market conditions. The language does not matter. The result does. Fewer seats. Longer hiring cycles. More ghosting. Lower offers. Higher bars. More people with impressive resumes chasing jobs beneath prior status. The market will keep telling itself this is temporary. A lot of it is structural. And the cruelest part is that this probably will not arrive as one cinematic crash. It will arrive as social downgrading. The title gets softer. The comp gets cut. The search takes longer. The savings get chewed through. The role accepted is smaller than the last one. The family says it is fine. The person knows something has broken. That kind of decline is much more psychologically destructive than one violent break because it makes people live inside the decay of their own ranking. Housing is where this becomes visible. The professional class was supposed to be the stable bid under the market. If enough of them lose income security while carrying large mortgages, the house stops being optionality and becomes a restraint device. People stop moving. Listings freeze. Spending contracts. Families become geographically trapped because leaving means crystallizing loss or taking a much worse payment elsewhere. The labor shock and the housing shock start feeding each other. Society is about to discover how much of the tax base, consumption base, and institutional calm sat on a white collar class whose value was inflated by a pre-AI information economy. That class thought it had made it because it was paid well. A lot of them were just being temporarily overcompensated to keep the administrative machine running. When the machine needs fewer humans, the paycheck premium gets repriced hard. Bottom line: A lot of six figure jobs are going away. A lot of the people in them will not get equivalent replacements. The pain will concentrate in the salaried professional class with high fixed costs and no ownership cushion. The official data will lag the lived reality. The social mood will get darker long before the statistics fully admit why. The real truth is simple: The next phase is the collapse of professional security. The middle is about to learn that income is not the same thing as safety.

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