Meanwhile, salaries and sign-on bonuses in the AI sector give us a glimpse of the sunlit uplands where talent is rewarded with immediate and dizzying wealth. Work redefined as elite level competitive sport aligned to willingness to show up all hours is life changing for very few whose life goal is to, I don’t know, buy islands.
But these aspirational shenanigans are not disconnected from the social crisis of #underwork, far from it.
https://www.afr.com/technology/sign-on-bonuses-of-150m-ai-talent-war-heats-up-20250701-p5mbr1