Last month, Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir Technologies, delivered a blunt warning to Gen Z and the broader workforce: “There are basically two ways to know you have a future. One, you have some vocational training. Or two, you’re neurodivergent.” Elite degrees, he added, will not protect anyone from AI disruption. Philosophy majors from prestigious universities, once considered intellectual gold, are now “very hard to market.”
Karp’s statement is not mere provocation. It represents a profound inversion of a century-old paradigm that has shaped modern organizations: the separation of Thinkers (those who plan and strategize) from Doers (those who execute).
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