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qwedf | 3 years ago

Industries that actually run the world and won't be disrupted by whatever VC-funded "Uber of X" whose business model is ultimately a Ponzi scheme. Think banking, engineering firms like Schneider/ABB, tools that are actually used in hospitals, etc. Look for major industry players that provide the backbone of basic infrastructure that you probably never heard of because they're too busy growing at a clip of 2% per year at $2B profit and don't need to crow. And of course the companies that support them

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sealeck|3 years ago

Not sure that financial services (banks) are less likely to be perpetrating a Ponzi scheme than Uber, etc.

qwedf|3 years ago

Can't argue against that. Although to be fair, the MBAification of the leadership class is turning most places into Ponzis or client-hating Monopolies

orangepurple|3 years ago

The difference is banks will always be bailed out by the government. It's the Ponzi that keeps on giving.

rramadass|3 years ago

Well Said!

I suspect this where the real "expertise" in Building Software Systems lies. Stable, Steady, Fault-Tolerant, least MTBF etc. characteristics are the name of the Game.

Cerium|3 years ago

Medical hardware is great. Boring time tested technology and good profits.

bitwize|3 years ago

All of the non-Web GUI development jobs I see are for either military applications or medical devices.

They also pay much lower than even enterprise webshit, despite requiring increasingly more specialized knowledge.