The other part of the equation is that retraining are a complete failure. The idea you can teach a truck driver or a coal miner to code is a fallacy. Retaining

The other part of the equation is that retraining are a complete failure. The idea you can teach a truck driver or a coal miner to code is a fallacy. Retaining programs have a 0-15% success rate. It’s basically useless. What happens is that middle aged people get their jobs automated away and they are left with nothing. Look at what happened after manufacturing jobs left the Midwest. This is the bigger problem is that large swathes of the population will have no viable jobs after automation.