The industry is not going "recover" for newly minted research scientists [D]

The top thread today asks: *"Is the tech industry still not recovered or I am that bad?"*

Let me make a bold prediction (and I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think I am): the industry is not going to "recover" for newly minted research scientists:

You have an exponentially growing number of ML papers, reflecting an exponentially growing number of PhD students and postdocs:

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... who graduate and start competing for a *roughly* fixed number of well-paying …

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