There’s a famous Henry Ford quote: “Our customers can get a car in any color they like as long that color is black”

Ah! A man of culture.

Oh yea!

I know what I’m installing tonight!

It just so happened that in Stuttgart there were protests and police in fact did blow one guy’s eye out of the socket in a very similar way you said.

I thought that you’re referring to that.

You’re from Stuttgart

w they can get Grok to fart out a logo or a poster in 15 seconds and not have to talk to an artist, they’re all set.

As much as I would like it not to be true, I think that you’re right.

Even though the “posters” and “graphics” that AI spits out are just awful/distasteful/etc. those very things are 80% of what people hire graphic designers for. (I know I am one). Most bosses want something NOW! If it looks presentable, it’s good enough.

In my opionion AI would hollow out the “entry level” tasks that small to mid-clients hire graphic designers for. What I think would survive are the “big ticket” projects, where human expertise would be hired. But again, those projects are few and far inbetween, and only a handful of designers are able to deliver work on such a high level.

I’m glad for you that you were lucky to have such friends

I used to own a business with employees. It was a small company objectively, but in a small town where I’m from that was a HUGE deal.

The company survived COVID, but due to total chaos with supply chains that happened after covid, my business got on hard times. I saw the writing on the wall, and started firing my employees and closing the company in order not for things to get any worse. I closed my company and landed a job in another company; a never missed a single salary.

It’s absolutely shocking how quickly everyone drops you once they hear you’ve gotten on “hard times”. All my friends, relatives, in-laws… EVERYONE drops you like you’re burning pile of shit. Want to call an old friend for drinks? You’re out of luck, nobody is taking your calls anymore, because now you’re a “failure”.

And let me repeat once again that I haven’t gotten into any BIG trouble, just closed everything down before it did actually SHTF. It’s just the optics of “being in a bad place” and poof everyone’s gone! You’re on your own now.

Oh boy yes. It’s absolutely brutal how quickly everyone drops you once you hit hard times.

No, and that’s a good thing.

To quote John Water: “If 8 milion people like it, then it’s probabbly not good”.

Exactly. Most men tend to stop celebrating their birthdays in their early teens.

Yeah, there’s a certain age after which you kinda stop caring about your own birthday.