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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Netflix killed all the jobs at video stores. Craigslist killed all the newspaper jobs funded by classifieds. Apple is killing the camera industry. Microsoft killed typewriters.
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I don't normally reply to the same post twice, but when I started in, the guy who taught me commercial litigation told me: "If you are working with business people* you need to read 3 papers every day. A national paper, like NYT or WaPo, the WSJ and a local paper. They will have read all 3 and will expect you to have also."
I have never read 1 paper daily. I spend more time looking at Candy Crush hint pages than reading a paper. If people still read newspapers there would still be jobs at them, and ads. I do see though that tech killed those sweet sweet Blockbuster clerk positions.**
*He probably said "business men" but I update here.
**There is a video store hold out a mile from my house. It is not a specialty store, just a standard video store. Over the years it has struggled to get something going, adding CBD recently, looking for what it can to survive. I assumed the clients are really old people who can't sort out getting movies online. But it was deemed "non-essential," (or maybe no one considered that might still be a video store around so it wasn't listed as "essential?") and I now this lockdown will be its death. Even those old people must have sorted out Roku etc by now.
