THE ERASURE OF THE BOTTOM RUNG

The machines are taking the grunt work. They are taking the tasks that used to train the next generation. Corporations call this efficiency. It is actually the destruction of the career ladder.

Jan Tinbergen predicted this structural failure. He was a Nobel economist. His logic remains. You cannot build a peak without a base. The base is being deleted by algorithms.

The industry is trading stability for margins. There will be no experts left. There will only be people managing machines that replaced the humans who used to learn.

DEPRESSING FEATURES

• The death of professional apprenticeship.
• The removal of fundamental skill building.
• A permanent gap in the labor pipeline.
• The automation of human growth.