Part of the problem is technological changes would have made much of said jobs obsolete anyway. Robotics displaced a lot of unskilled labor jobs, especially the ones rather entrenched with unions demanding a lot of benefits.
America’s industrial output never dropped, it’s at an all-time high. We just don’t need people to work on assembly lines like we used to.
I think of it as the same problem America had when agriculture was mechanized, plenty of people who were formerly subsistence farmers now were no longer needed and ultimately went into Industry.
However, what sector will replace the Industrial sector is not known to me. That’s the solution needed.
Yep, how do we get jobs for the “dumb” people? Idle hands are the Devil’s Playground, and we are going to have even more ferals on our hands to have to deal with. I don’t know if there are any easy ways out.