Working a Non-Blockchain Related Job
Will it be strange by 2028?
Some still remain; people toiling away behind desks made to be heavy enough for typewriters in industries that hang onto vestiges of consumer interest. We cannot fault them nor should we denigrate their efforts. The permanent and distributed ledgers of today did not exist when they were selecting their college courses or when they were dreaming up ambitious pursuits.
But in this timeline, one that seems made by a bored AI at times, most are still working non-blockchain related jobs. Only the tiniest fraction of a minority treat ledger technology as their (vocational) north star.
Imagine for a second that billions behave differently. Morning hits and this generalized mass wakes up in a world with real censorship resistance, markets for their surplus energy supply, a system of rewards for certain actions that they treat as passive income, and (traceable) authentic items and qualities. Everything from wifi to DocuSign is decentralized. Diplomas, mortgages, the precise order of nucleotides, books — these are all on the blockchain.
What was traditionally regarded as valuable is now not so valuable anymore.
What was traditionally a system that monetized time is now a system that ignites and rewards attentions.
Now imagine that some still remain outside of this new order. It might even become a moral issue, or a human right issue!
Even so, a question like “Is access to distributed ledger technology a human right?” is extremely far off.
Roughly five percent or a little under 17 million Americans hold bitcoin with 30 percent of women and 23 percent of men saying cryptocurrency is too complicated to understand. Those are not favorable conditions for a booming blockchain economy by EOY.
Excluding anyone reading this who is under the age of 14–18, we’ve worked non-blockchain jobs and we’ve seen the rewards. It might be time to say that the rewards are not enough. We can do better.
If two million Americans quit their jobs every month (which is the average) starting tomorrow and go straight into a blockchain related industry, it would take 13.5 years to completely transition into the space assuming the rate that Americans quit remains consistent, that no one quits again after their initial exit, and so on. We could have gone from Earth to Mars and back again in the same spacecraft 16 times in under that time (not taking into account orbital distance, etc.).
Back in 2011, only 1/3 of American adults were found to own a smartphone. Fast forward to 95 percent now. It took seven years for today’s level of acceptance from an already high point in acceptance relational to crypto hodlers (33 percent).
You’ll say that framing the technological sprint of this space is impossible. And you may be right. The founding tenets of our new enterprise, and ones that we encourage all new pioneers to adopt:
- Building the bridge between expert and novice (even the uninterested) is important.
- Do better to ensure that the future of blockchain impacts every industry in ways that also benefit humanity.
And lastly,
- Work will change.
Want to connect? Write Jo at jo@enterbillions.co for inquiries.
Let the billions enter! -EB
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