Problem is many people never need those higher math skills. But they were never given the chance in high school for other skills like carpentry, electrical wiring, or car repair. Nope, only Algebra, Geometry, French, Spanish.
The dumbing down of the population. Life skills used for centuries...able to build your own home, grow your own food, smoke your own meat, and later fix your own vehicle..all skills which made people more self-sufficient.
Instead they are now taught to stare at a computer screen for 8 hours, click a mouse, and let a computer do most of the work.
Problem is many people never need those higher math skills. But they were never given the chance in high school for other skills like carpentry, electrical wiring, or car repair. Nope, only Algebra, Geometry, French, Spanish.
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Agreed, but I can pay a decent carpenter or electrician here in the Philippines the going rate of 500 Pesos a day (a little more than $10).
Skilled blue-collar work is more and more the realm of the Mexican Cheap Labor Express and skilled white-collar work is basically only for Indians now.
So where does that leave a vast number of Americans who chose the services industry (the one industry absolutely devastated by the government lockdowns)