> Do we really think that people who do lower-level jobs can't be trained to do higher-level jobs? It's not going to be easy to retrain the 3 million truck dri

> Do we really think that people who do lower-level jobs can't be trained to do higher-level jobs? It's not going to be easy to retrain the 3 million truck drivers, many of whom have high school diplomas and are age 60+ men, for one of the high-growth jobs of today (topped with software engineer, statistician, nurse practitioner). Especially considering that they're competing against 20-somethings. And when I say it's not going to be easy I mean we haven't managed to do it so far. By the numbers those who have lost their auto manufacturing jobs to automation have not been retrained very well. Half dropped out of the workforce, and of those the other half filed for disability (the number of disability beneficiaries has increased 5x since 1970).