America's Future

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   gmwilliamsposted 10 months ago

   
   American society is changing at a rapid pace.  Those who are highly educated with a specialty will have a great future as their skills will be in demand.  The future will belong to the educated, specialized classes.  Those who are less educated & less specialized will have a tenuous future as their skills will be no longer relevant.  American society will be increasingly computerized with AI performing jobs that people used to perform.  American society, like it or not, will be strictly stratified, not along racial/ethnic lines, but along educational/socioeconomic lines.  In American society, those who are educated/specialized will rule while those with less education/skills will be the underclass.  Even government policies can't stop the future stratification which will be commonplace in American society.   Income stratification is growing & is here to stay.  What say you?

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      tsmogposted 10 months agoin reply to this

      Yup, you're right as I see it on different points. However, I have questions with "American society, like it or not, will be strictly stratified, not along racial/ethnic lines, but along educational/socioeconomic lines." I see race, education, and work opportunity as synergistic and dynamic rather than static. In other words, what is the propensity of overall one race having an advantage over another in those three statistically speaking? Frankly I don't know, but 'perceive' that it does exist.
      
      Curious I looked to see what jobs/careers were best to aim creating the plan to prepare for them.
      
      Fastest Growing Occupations by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
      Fastest growing occupations: 20 occupations with the highest projected percent change of employment between 2023-33.
      https://www.bls.gov/ooh/fastest-growing.htm
      
      and,
      
      100 Best Jobs by U.S. News (2024)
      https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-j … -best-jobs
      
      I am left with questions . . .
      
      At what age does a parent begin assessing the talents, capacities, and capabilities of their children while the parents themselves keep abreast of their children's future related to the opportunities arriving such as what jobs will grow with a demand?
      
      How do you advise a child, teen, or young adult to pursue a statistical model for opportunity in the future contrast what the child loves and/or aspires?
      
      I'll do some mental wandering  . . .

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      Credence2posted 10 months agoin reply to this

      Yet, the most uneducated people support Trump. His making promises to bring back a 20th century economic model to America, contradicts the idea that people will have to become more educated to survive rather than otherwise.

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         gmwilliamsposted 10 months agoin reply to this

         Cred, blue collar jobs are becoming passe as those & lower level white collar jobs i.e. clerical jobs are being automated.  He can't bring back jobs that are on the way to becoming extinct.   Jobs are becoming more complex & specialized.  In the 21st century, even a bachelor's degree no longer suffices. One must have a specialized graduate degree in STEM subjects to be middle class.   Liberal arts & humanities are also becoming passe. Such majors have a high unemployment rate.  Many who major in such subjects end up underemployed.  That is the reality of the 21st century.

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            Credence2posted 10 months agoin reply to this

            Some body needs to tell that to Trump and the countless lemmings that follow him that actually believe that we can go back....

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   Kathryn L Hillposted 10 months ago

   "At what age does a parent begin assessing the talents, capacities, and capabilities of their children
   
   while the parents themselves keep abreast of their children's future
   
   related to the opportunities arriving
   
   such as what jobs will grow with a demand?
   
   How do you advise a child, teen, or young adult to pursue a statistical model for opportunity in the future
   
   contrast
   
   what the child loves and/or aspires?"
   
   
   What are you talking about?
   Please explain!!!!!

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      tsmogposted 10 months agoin reply to this

      "What are you talking about?"
      
      hmmm . . .
      
      Life

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         Kathryn L Hillposted 10 months agoin reply to this

         Yes, but specifically how?
         You are a thinker and therefore a writer. Please elucidate.

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            tsmogposted 10 months agoin reply to this

            Just to kick start it . . .
            
            Why did you decide to teach for a profession? Did your parents guide you in that direction? When did you decide to become a teacher? Did they advise you to do that while in high school such as from a guidance counselor?
            
            Were you ever given a career aptitude test? At what age? Did you take one at different ages to see if change has occurred? If it said your best opportunities would be for a job/career in something other than teaching would you have pursued it? If the parents knew that knowledge should they have supported that information or your choice to be a teacher?
            
            Just a starting point to let your mind wander how best to prepare a child that becomes a teen that becomes a young adult that becomes someone who enters the realm of working to earn a living while building a career path.

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               Kathryn L Hillposted 10 months agoin reply to this

               Thank you for a meandering path. Don't you have something more?
               A personal anecdote, for instance?

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                  tsmogposted 10 months agoin reply to this

                  Nope, none that I would share on social media, though I have examples within some social circles that I have been or are a member of today.

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