Your insistence that IT jobs can be taken with training is just silly. Good systems engineer is akin to brain surgery. You have the aptitude or not. Many don’t. I have had plenty of employees with Masters in computer science who still can’t code their way out of a paper bag.
Careful, lest you sound like a Democrat who insists that everyone is suited for higher education! Computer programming is the same thing.
Correction: I’ve *had* employees with Masters who can’t code. They get phased out quickly.