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IMF chief's latte warning draws a life coach who says Gen Z should…

IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva says no young person wants a barista career, and warns that AI's impact will arrive gradually; the coffee industry is watching nervously.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe head of the IMF now says AI is a slow-moving tsunami, and graduates could end up making lattes at Starbucks.

  2. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorWith us from an undisclosed retreat is life coach Bartholomew Yeung. Is the tsunami a mindset issue?

  3. Bartholomew YeungHank, a wave is only a wave if you agree to be wet.

  4. Bartholomew YeungIn my experience, my cousin visualized a dry beach for a year and the ocean simply respected him.

  5. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe IMF chief said no young person wants to be a barista as a professional future. Is she wrong?

  6. Bartholomew YeungShe is limiting the barista. In my experience, a man I know poured one oat flat white and ascended into leadership.

  7. Bartholomew YeungI hold my gratitude spoon every morning for those people.

  8. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA man you know.

  9. Bartholomew YeungIn my experience, a different man, who may have been fired from a coffee counter for being too visionary.

  10. Bartholomew YeungWhich is why my twelve-week course is only four hundred dollars.

  11. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo the plan for a graduate facing a machine is to pay you to feel good about it. What has the spoon manifested for you?

  12. Bartholomew YeungMostly it stirs coffee, Hank. It's a very good spoon.

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