Probably the same as it&#x27;s always been - VC backed unicorn-aiming startups aren&#x27;t a great idea as a long term career spot. If you are a genuine 10x engineer _and_ you have a single digit employee number, a wanna-be-unicorn is a gamble that&#x27;s worth at least evaluating. If you want a family&#x2F;social life outside of work, and you&#x27;re only prepared to put in enough effort to be &quot;just&quot; a good solid employee, startups have probably never been a great idea.<p>Not that the non-VC fuelled &quot;corporate world&quot;or even the small&#x2F;medium business sector is any less intrinsically sociopathic towards employees and their drag on the legal requirement to &quot;increase shareholder value&quot; - we don&#x27;t live in the world out fathers&#x2F;grandfathers did, where doing &quot;a fair days work for a fair days pay&quot; every day pretty much guarantees you a livelihood until retirement.<p>We&#x27;re already seeing problems amongst the 50+ year old demographic finding it increasingly common to be looking for new jobs at the same time as finding their skills and employability are significantly less relevant to modern businesses. I suppose that&#x27;s always been happening, there&#x27;s not too many jpb openings for 55 year old buggy whip makers, or even automobile welders, but I _think_ the rate of change is getting faster and I seriously wonder what the job market and economy is going to look like with another decade or generation of people who spent the first half or more of their careers in serious debt and don&#x27;t have the capital to live out a retirement, nor a skillset that&#x27;ll allow then to remain employed...