Experience beats education now. But you can't get experience without entry-level jobs.

Experience beats education now. But you can't get experience without entry-level jobs, and those jobs no longer exist.

That's the bind. Graduate as a lawyer, dev, designer — and discover the bottom rung is gone. AI took it. No firm wants to pay you to learn what it already knows.

So the next generation doesn't get to climb. They have to build their own ladder. Entrepreneurial by necessity, not by choice. Self-taught by force.

Figure it out yourself or fall behind. That's the new contract, and nobody signed it on purpose.