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Originally Posted by wig
If you are low skilled worker, you need to acquire higher skills. If you are in a job that performs purely repetitive tasks (autoworkers on factory lines) which are subject to being replaced by robotics, you need a new skill.
If you are a white-collar worker and perform "middle-man" functions, you are also in deep trouble in the new economy. ...
A lot of this is going to be made or broken based on education, and the US is not doing a great job there. But I think that is what will be required for blue-collar and white-collar workers to succeed in the new economy.
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I imagine you recognize that you are repeating a common line of rhetoric, and that the subtext and context of that rhetoric is still essentially "many of you workers are just fucked and you'd best get used to your new class and state in society.".
There are no jobs or industries that need the millions of unemployed. The jobs with "higher skills" by definition require fewer workers. We have no reasonable chance of creating enough "high skills" jobs, in any realistic time frame, that could hire even a small fraction of teh currently unemployed, underemployed, and unemployable.
Presmumably you know this. Yet you still make the argument.