in which context “safe” would normally be taken to mean something like “reasonably safe”, not “exactly 100% safe”.
I didn’t just say “safe” I added the qualifier “real” to it. I also started the sentence with “today” with makes it more like a general platitude.
I specifically didn’t say your job isn’t safe but made the general statement that no job is really safe.
It happens to be a general platitude commonly repeated in popular culture.
What do you think he thinks it is?
I think he didn’t have a probability estimate for that in his mind at the time I was writing those lines. When you assume he had such a thing you miss the point of the exercise.
I didn’t just say “safe” I added the qualifier “real” to it. I also started the sentence with “today” with makes it more like a general platitude. I specifically didn’t say your job isn’t safe but made the general statement that no job is really safe.
It happens to be a general platitude commonly repeated in popular culture.
I think he didn’t have a probability estimate for that in his mind at the time I was writing those lines. When you assume he had such a thing you miss the point of the exercise.