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Originally Posted by Max2147
It used to be that American companies had their blue collar and white collar jobs in the US. Today a lot of the blue collar jobs have gone overseas or been replaced by technology, but the white collar jobs are still in the US, and there are more white collar jobs than before. In the future the blue collar jobs will continue to disappear - that's inevitable. Our hope will be to replace those jobs with more white collar jobs. The key will be education, which will give people the qualifications needed for the white collar jobs.
It's a major oversimplification, but I think that's where the future is going. Most people in advanced nations will have cushy white collar jobs, while robots at home and workers abroad replace the blue collar jobs.
I'm not saying this is all a good thing, but I think it's the way things are going.
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The whole problem with it is that while there are indeed more white collar jobs than there were before there still aren't nearly enough of them to replace the lost blue collar jobs,... and the population continues to grow,...
and now we're starting to see white collar jobs being replaced by technology too. At what point does it become unsustainable?