What if all work is no longer necessary? Then yes, we're going to have to rethink how our society works. Fair enough. I'm a bit confused by your read on the pe

What if all work is no longer necessary? Then yes, we're going to have to rethink how our society works. Fair enough. I'm a bit confused by your read on the people who don't make it through college. The implication is that if you don't make it into a high status/white collar job, you're destined for a life of poverty. I feel like this speaks more to the insecurity of the white collar worker, and isn't actually a good reflection of reality. Most of my friends dropped out of college and did something completely different in the service industry, it's not really a "life of poverty." > My parents got high paying jobs straight out of highschool. Now, highschool grads are destined to flip burgers. This feels like pure luck for your parents. Take a wider look at history -- it's just a regression to the mean. We used to have _less_ complex jobs. Mathematics/science hasn't always been a job. That is to say, burger-flipping or an equivalent was more common. It was not the norm that households were held together by a single man's income, etc.