Every day, as I struggle to focus
on the present despite much predictable turbulence in the near future, one
particular thought continually crawls into my skull.
People around my age and younger
are being trained for skills, work, jobs, etc. that may only CURRENTLY exist.
What no one seems take any notice of is the fact that most of those skills and
work opportunities could EASILY become obsolete and/or replaced by machines in
just a few years, maybe before most people born after 1990 even hit 30!
So, if the overwhelming majority
of current work is being swallowed up by technological unemployment, the next
logical step would be to find out what new job sectors are opening.
Well, as we may quickly find,
there are none.
Maybe the knowledge/information
sector could create a few opportunities, but that will not be enough by any
stretch of the imagination.
So what we do? Pay a lot of
people to post on Twitter and Facebook?
I don't think so.
And with the overwhelming
majority of us having no jobs, how are we going to buy things? What happens
when the economy comes a crashing halt?
Our society is not changing
nearly as quickly as necessary to keep up with the progression of science and
technology.
I think we are going to need a
new system. The free market is beyond obsolete...
