Chase Peterson-Withorn is on the staff of Forbes magazine, a member of the wealth
team, which means he follows the meanderings of billionaires and such. He
probably got the gig on his name alone. I mean, if you were running Forbes, which reeks of old money, would
you put anybody named Ecklebob Chiselfritz or something like that on your
wealth team?
But
I digress.
One
of the billionaires Chase Peterson-Withorn covers is real estate developer Jeff
Greene, who has a message for peeps with cushy jobs: You’re probably doomed.
Examples
abound, everything from automated fast-food restaurants to robo-advisers
managing money. The story mentions a Harvard Business School study that claims
40 million Americans soon will have job skills with zero economic value (i.e.
your profession’s equivalent of an orange cat writing a blog).
Mr.
Greene caught flak at the World Economic Forum last January when he was quoted
as saying Americans need to adjust their expectations and live a “smaller,
better existence.” It was a full-blown snark attack, with critics pointing out
he traveled to Davos, Switzerland on a private jet with wife, children and
nanny in tow.
Later,
Mr. Greene claimed to have been “completely misquoted” - believable considering the sorry state of
journalism.
(Media
criticism is not meant to include Chase Peterson-Withorn, former president of
the Ohio University Students for Liberty, and today we salute him for having a
job a robot can’t do … yet.)
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