How do you do that is you don't know what those jobs will be?
Do you think the knew that the internet would employ millions when I graduated in 1978 and my wife graduated in 1976? They had no clue as we both work with the internet every minute of every shift!
You have always struck me as smarter than most of the posters on this forum, Admiral. The rubes want answers to our nation's problems to be provided in 280 characters or less, but the real solutions are complicated and we need leaders who can do the hard work instead of the pandering pricks we keep electing and re-electing.
As I say many times, we get the politicians we deserve. We also get the problems we deserve.
To answer your question, we know the jobs of the future will be in the services and entertainment sectors. We know those jobs will NOT be in the manufacturing sector.
Dipshit politicians who promise to bring back manufacturing jobs are lying to your face because they are too lazy to do the heavy lifting which needs to be done to tweak our education system.
As I have pointed out many, many times, when our country was founded, 90 percent of all jobs were in the agricultural sector. Today, we are producing more food than ever and using only 2 percent of our workforce to do it.
It would take a seriously unethical politician to declare they are going to bring back all those lost farming jobs, yes? He'd be either an idiot or lazy or both.
Just so with politicians who promise to bring back manufacturing jobs and jobs in the coal industry. We are manufacturing more goods than ever (something the unethical invariably fail to mention) while requiring a much smaller workforce to do so.
Job growth is happening in the services and entertainment industries. So that's where we need to gear our training.
Giving a kid the minimum education to work on an assembly line is doing them a serious disservice. We need to steer kids into the sciences and technology.
I tell my kids all the time that math is the most important area of study. Not just for the obvious reasons, but it also teaches you how to think logically.
Most of the people on this forum do not know how to think logically. They operate on the "I want to bleev it, so it must be true" system.
A frequent tactic of propagandists is to carefully frame information to give the wrong impression. For instance, if they support a pandering, lazy populist who promises to bring back manufacturing jobs, they frame the manufacturing employment graph into a very narrow time frame instead of showing the long term big picture. Then the rube herd celebrates any short term job growth and buys into the idea that all we need to do is threaten China and not do anything to fix the real problems.
I like to post this once in a while:
Damn you, Obama! Damn you!
Oh, wait...
Total Number Of Coal Plants Plummeting Globally
When shown only the short term graph, the rubes can be easily convinced lost coal jobs are because Obama is a commie job killer. But when you look at the big picture, the truth jumps right out at you.
Now let's look at the big picture for manufacturing:
The red line is productivity (making more stuff). The blue line is manufacturing jobs.
Manufacturing jobs are NOT coming back. They are gone for good.
http://conexus.cberdata.org/files/MfgReality.pdf
Almost 88 percent of job losses in manufacturing in recent years can be attributable to productivity growth, and the long-term changes to manufacturing employment are mostly linked to the productivity of American factories.
We have GOT to stop falling for hucksters and their pandering bullshit.
Thank you for your patience, Admiral, and I hope your health is strong.
