> Making them all into skilled labor is absurd for many reasons, not least of which is, we don't need that many engineers. I'm not sure "we don't need that man

> Making them all into skilled labor is absurd for many reasons, not least of which is, we don't need that many engineers. I'm not sure "we don't need that many engineers" is defensible. Who's to say how many are "needed" or not? I see no reason why the world couldn't have many more engineers (and scientists) working and still doing useful work. Seriously. How do people look around at the world today and think: Yup, everything is peachy. Let's just sustain this, folks, we're good. As long as there's a third world, we're nowhere close to having enough of anything, including engineers. There's still a shit ton of work to be done just to get the world to an acceptable level for all people.