Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Disitermedition


With the emergence of the World Wide Web, a lot of jobs became disintermediated. Or in other words the internet cut the middle man, the middle man being thousand of jobs. The most obvious one is travel agents! There used to be a huge calling for travel agents. Just like Toula's job in My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Their job used to collect all the necessarily information one needed in order to travel out of the country. Like the plane ticket, how to rent a car, what hotel to stay out, even restaurant reservations! It was a pretty huge calling back then, but thanks to the internet, a bunch of sites can now take care of all that for you. Another job is a Tax preparer, or someone who would help you figure out all those complicated questions when you file your taxes. Now you can go online answer a few questions and your taxes will be filed.  A lot of jobs have changed because of the world wide web, but the biggest question is where did all these people go? Well the most reasonable answer is they went online too. Many probably had to go back to school to get the necessary requirements to do their jobs online. I assume some had to get another job, probably in a similar field. And maybe some, like Toula, found the man of their dreams and work wasn't a necessity anymore. Regardless the reason, thanks to the world wide web, we don't get to interact with these people any longer.

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