What is much more damaging is how many employers would upgrade their workers - they’ll be thinking why should I have these dumb ugly guys waiting on my customers, when I could have cute girls with college degrees?
No teens will ever be hired again, much less “teens”. No jobs for no education, no experience. I have 30 years experience in automation, and databases, and a dozen programming langages and I am a mechanical engineer with a high background in advanced mathematics, statistics, big data, and physical sciences and large scale manufacturing, with old school knowledge, of wiring, machining, and even pipe bending. I think I can make a fully automated fast food joint capable of running with one person to fix jams with fully automated accountung and ordering. And I will undercut anybody by half.
Perhaps its time