The Internet Is Changing How We Define 'Work'

For 240 years, Americans have believed anybody could be president. This November, the internet finally made that happen.

People voted for Donald Trump for many different reasons, but all of his supporters had to believe, at least on some level, that a man who is willfully ignorant of the president’s job—and who pitched his ignorance as a feature, not a bug—can work the levers of the Oval Office just fine. For the first time in history, voters in the U.S. said that professional experience is not necessary for perhaps the most complex job in the world.

Doubling down on that, Trump has tapped Dr. Ben Carson to do a Cabinet for which he has no qualifications. Carson got this far, “It is important to remember that amateurs built the Ark and it was the professionals that built the .” If this anti-professional trend works in reverse, politicians can watch a few YouTube videos and pull off brain surgery.