"Western executives who visit China are coming back terrified" (robotics)

[Johnny2X2X]

30. My whole life

I was born in the early 1970s, and from the time I could understand adults I have been being told that in order to have a middle class life in the future, you'll need a college education. And that's exactly what I have seen my whole life. Increasingly, even for entry level positions, a degree was required. And the last decade, the degree changed from any old degree, to something more specific and useful.

I am 10 years from retirement now, I am in a good spot to have a secure retirement. I got the degrees I needed and they paid off. But the last several years, what I am hearing is more ominous than what I heard growing up, I am hearing that most degrees will be useless and that most manual labor will be gone. So now they say learn a skilled trade. And that's always been sound advice, but what happens when the skilled trades are flooded with millions of people trying to find a new way to earn a living?

We're at the dawn of great change and the jackals are somehow in charge of ushering in this new era. I don't know what happens from here, but I don't think the US is going to be a safe and desirable place to live for the majority of the people.