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)
Sure can’t get a decent electrician, carpenter, or plumber for $10 here in the States! Those skills provide many a person with a good yearly income here.
But again the most needed skills to be more self-sufficient in the U.S. are not taught anymore. A population staring at computer and phone screens all day will only deteriorate in time.