Remember when we saw all our manufacturing jobs leave to China? The talking heads said “no worries we just need to re-educate and get workers more tech savvy for design and maintenance jobs”.
The truth is if the bottom dollar is our only goal no job is safe.
that is until our living standards are as low as 3rd world nations…
” Remember when we saw all our manufacturing jobs leave to China? The talking heads said “no worries we just need to re-educate and get workers more tech savvy for design and maintenance jobs”.
They sold white collar workers on outsourcing based on this lie.
Fact is, it is easier to outsource a white collar design job than it is to pick up a factory and move iot.
Especially when the white collar employees are already working remote part of the time.
In some ways it serves them right for thinking about the stock options and cheap imported crap they would be able to buy.
But we all lose, and have been for decades.
my 16 year old is trying to decide what field he wants to get into. I didn’t suggest anything other than “make sure it’s a job that has to be done here (trades, plumber, electrician, road builder that sort of thing) and not likely to be taken over by an illegal or a robot...”
he thought about it and said “dad, this seems to make the most sense... Robotics and robotic repair”
not sure where he got his smarts from. but I’ll take it.