> If we accepted that modern workers that flit from job to job and project to project are here to stay and gave them a real safety net without all the nasty ide

> If we accepted that modern workers that flit from job to job and project to project are here to stay and gave them a real safety net without all the nasty ideological baggage, we could come closer to achieving the dream of the fluid, frictionless, task-oriented labor force that some economists have thought we should have for decades. Instead we have the Precariat.' In many cases, a student's chosen major dictates their career options for the rest of their employed lives. The costs of switching knowledge-based jobs is hurting job market responsiveness and driving social inequality. Fundamentally, the model of "learn as a kid - do as an adult" is obsolete. The world is far too complicated and moving far too fast. We need to strip down basic childhood education and publicly support adults learning throughout life. It doesn't have to be easy... it will still take years to switch domains. But that's a lag of 1-2 years for adults to retrain vs encouraging a new generation in highschool and waiting for them to pass through college.