How human nature, AI, and interest rates ruined it for everybody

A long explanation of why the UX market is not what it was.

Rita Kind-Envy
UX Collective
Published in
7 min readMar 14, 2024

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The Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius” by Pierre-Jacques Volaire is a dramatic depiction of one of Mount Vesuvius’s eruptions, a theme Volaire revisited more than 30 times in his work. Created in 1777, this oil on canvas painting captures the night of an eruption with vivid detail and emotion. The scene is set against the backdrop of an erupting Vesuvius, with lava flowing down into the town below.
The Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius by Pierre-Jacques Volaire, 1777

What’s happening now with the market is kind of a Vesuvius eruption. Something that should’ve been expected, but no one really believed.

Throughout the 18th century, Vesuvius experienced a series of 6 eruptions. They were painted…

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