I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.

[taxwonk]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Job search, relocation, and vocational assistance aren't going to work for more but a tiny fraction of those in the workforce for over 15 or so years. Nor will these things work for people of limited intelligence. They are worth trying, of course, but don't expect much. The low intelligence/low skilled workers will, in large part, become wards of the state.

We should focus ourselves on helping the young, who can benefit from such programs. I think a good place to start would be to identify children's natural skills at an early age and try to give them pathways to productive careers in which their skill sets are valued. Too much of education now is teaching-for-the-test to put kids into jobs that are lucrative. Or, kids just floundering and figuring out what they want to do as they rudderlessly navigate the education system (70% of law students). A better course may be identifying where people will excel early and giving them a path to it.

But no matter how we slice it, with tech's impact, we are looking at a massive body glut for the medium to reasonably long term future which no basket of fixes easily addresses.

There's always cannibalism and class warfare.