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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Believe me, I hope you're right, and that has indeed worked historically - amazingly well.Ask a telephone operator.
Or a telephone installer! Remember when they used to check your lines to make sure you didn't install any phones on your own?
TV repairman anyone?
Gas station attendants?
Milkmen?
My point is, jobs change, people move on and find other jobs, retire.
Not the exact person of course, but new jobs and skills emerge:
Did the telephone operator become a call center worker?
Does the phone installer now install data lines and smoke detectors for an electrician?
Is the TV repairman now an HVAC repairman?
Are the gas station attendants and millkmen now working for UPS?
But it seems the rate of change is getting faster and faster, and will people be able to adapt skill wise fast enough? The transition from farmer to factory worker happened over generations. The transition from factory worker to software coding has happened within a generation, and the skills training is more difficult. If careers become obsolete within 10 years, can people-skills keep up?
Has our education system kept up? Can it? Can teachers evolve fast enough? I'd say they haven't so far...
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