"Learn a Trade!" response to AI fears

[Johnny2X2X]

40. Excellent post, thanks

"Get a real job."

That sums up some of the sentiment I hear about this topic. As if office work isn't a "real job" and most work for degreed people isn't "value added."

The whole narrative plays off jealousy and plays right into the Right Wing playbook and apparently Project 2025 also.

Will things look different? Yes. And we can't know all the ways it will look different and what the best responses to it will be. But don't go to college is an answer I am quite confident is the wrong one for most young people, just as it has been for my entire life.