Many examples from people in the community, plus other people I have known, who found themselves in that situation, are a strong contributor to this. Some of them described their experiences very well. Also personal experience—I noticed that I myself had no idea how to do this outside of a few select areas where I had unusual experiences and friends who helped me achieve this, slash some of my talents/skills happen to have unusually direct paths to being useful work.
We can also look at general behavior in these situations, how people talk when they are looking for what to do next and clearly want to do something object-level both real and in fiction, etc etc. And we can look at the fact that it is strangely hard to find good hires for real object-level tasks even with solid pay.
Studies are basically not a thing anywhere in this sequence, they don’t exist and I don’t even know how one would do one if you had the funding and support to do so. That’s one big reason why all of this remains deniable/invisible.
I’m quite surprised by this but don’t find it entirely implausible.
Concretely, what evidence caused you to believe it? I’m curious about data (anecdotes, studies, experience, …) rather than models.
Many examples from people in the community, plus other people I have known, who found themselves in that situation, are a strong contributor to this. Some of them described their experiences very well. Also personal experience—I noticed that I myself had no idea how to do this outside of a few select areas where I had unusual experiences and friends who helped me achieve this, slash some of my talents/skills happen to have unusually direct paths to being useful work.
We can also look at general behavior in these situations, how people talk when they are looking for what to do next and clearly want to do something object-level both real and in fiction, etc etc. And we can look at the fact that it is strangely hard to find good hires for real object-level tasks even with solid pay.
Studies are basically not a thing anywhere in this sequence, they don’t exist and I don’t even know how one would do one if you had the funding and support to do so. That’s one big reason why all of this remains deniable/invisible.