I find it amazing that finance, sales, etc are held in such high regard when it's science and technology that advance society.
You misspelled plumbing and agriculture.
Which are technology and science, respectively.
Most scientific and engineering skills would also be useless if civilization collapses. For example, I am a scientific software developer. Most of my work has been for medical research, which is something people tend to respect. However, I wouldn't be able to do anything useful with numerical modelling in a survival situation. My limited skills as an amateur home renovator would be far more relevant.
I agree with the rebuilding civilization from scratch part, but it's still what advances society.
*In this case, what will advance society is farming equipment. Machining science.
It's a bit like Maslows hierarchy of needs. First we need food and water and plumbing. When we are secure in those needs, society can take the next step. But the basis of security must be there before advancement
As a software engineer I often think about how laughably useless my skillset would be in any kind of survival or societal reset sort of situation.
At least you can analyze problems logically and break down complex procedures into small, manageable steps.
SharePoint admins are really fucked.
Anyone building a system that's similar to what they're used to, in a post-apocalyptic society, would be laughed at, then shot.
You're a software engineer. You at least know the very basics of digital electronics, and can probably work your way backward to rudimentary power supplies.
You are far from fucked.
Mathematicians though? Oof I worry about them, if they did anything too practical they'd be physicists.
That's where you're wrong bucko!
I'm a software engineer skilled in devops, Linux and web applications! I spent much of today making Jira tickets and drawing diagrams!
I'm so fucked
Guys I've figured out the solution to our food problem! First, assume the pantry is full...
But if you were isekaied at the start of the apocalypse, which, let's be honest, is more likely than you surviving until post-apocalypse, you could become a monster magician!
On the other hand, if the apocalypse were Skynet...
"Oh no, all the scum-masters are gone, who will annoy us with their inane babbling now?"
scum-masters
Best typo ever.
Oh it was not a mistake, trust me.
One once tried showing me a slideshow on what it is they actually do, because the sauna we had for that evening was from their company.
Guy couldn't fuckin read the room though and actually went through with his PowerPoint presentation. I couldn't for the life of me figure out how someone could ignore so many social cues from us, the people who had nothing to do with his work, his company, or any work at all. Purely recreational night and dude starts it with that.
Yuck yuck yuck
How will you know your velocity and whether you're swagged high or not?
When all the billionaires are dead and there's no one to create our jobs for us. :(
Or landlords, not that leaching of society is a real job.
Sorry to disappoint, but landlording as a profession is the likeliest to thrive in a post apocalyptic medium.
I don't believe the pre-apocalypse landlords ownership of land will be respected or matter.
It won't. The new landlords however will get to make their own rules about how to handle their unregulated ownership.
Yes but what is most likely to happen is that some violent mofos will take over large territories and make up their own rules and (...)
Which is what happened the last time there was a societal collapse.
I just found out that my landlord doesn’t have a job besides the income from properties. Fucking parasite still won’t fix basic shit
Also not pictured: project managers
A few competent project managers would probably help things quite a bit, actually.
Having a single point of contact for several disparate teams of people doing real work so that they can actually do that work, instead of spending extra time in endless meetings arguing over the best way to implement something that requires multiple people's input is a valuable tool to have.
Think of them like a tank in an RPG, taking all the meeting hits that would otherwise decimate the effectiveness of people actually putting the real work in.
Valid. Competent is the key word. I'm lucky, in that most of the ones I work with are actually really good, but the ones my colleagues work with (in the same company, different division) might as well have gotten their PMMP certificate out of a cereal box.
Oh yeah, Project management is one of those roles that is especially vulnerable to the Peter Principal.
In order to be a good one, you need to be part therapist and part hostage negotiator while also being one of those weirdos that enjoys meetings
Telephone sanitizers.
Do you want our species to die from a disease spread from telephone receivers? Because that's how you get our species to die from a disease spread from telephone receivers.
City planner here:
"I say 'No.'"
I make powerpoints.
Of course they can't find them.
They all shipped out on the (ever-important) Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B.
The USA has a bs mythology that it was founded by 'pioneers' and that a wild wild west existed.
The untold history of the USA is really the story of finance. Those that financed, the joint stock companies that helped to bring immigrants over. The land speculators, and recruiters that brought over Irish and other immigrants over in the 19th century, through money provided by rail and steam companies.
These type of post-apocalyptic memes perpetuate the stereotype of a self-made country. When in reality financiers from England were offshoring labor to a country with fewer regulations and no copyright/patent laws.
A very USA-centric comment. While it is true that countries that were former colonies have their roots tied to those imperialist projects which definitely involved finance, this is not the case for countries that didn't start as colonies. The sweat of the subsistence farmer or the feudal peasant/slave was what built the foundations of most countries.
In a truly post-apocalyptic setting there definitely would not be any need for finance of any sort. Job titles such as the one in the meme above are bullshit jobs that only exist to serve modern consumer capitalism. That is to say, they are not necessary. That's what this meme is about in my opinion.
One of the ways I try to sell my trade to students, is telling them how important it is for the world. Machining, welding, plumbing, carpentry and so on. All of it would be primus motor to get society back.
No Social Media Coordinators? No regional PR reps? No "local small business" for them to inherit?
I've told all the children in the family, Learn how to make a living at least two ways, one with your mind, one with your hands/back. You'll always have food on the table.
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