True. And how many middle-aged former textile workers are capable of ever becoming bio-technologists? The bio-tech companies may have a few janitorial positions open for such people, but those will probably be filled with illegal aliens, freshly arrived from Mexico...
As though the type of person who is content sewing together duffel bags for the past ten years is just going to hop right over to centrifuges and gene splicing after a couple of years dwon at the community college.