Everyone needs to become autodidactic renaissance men, capable of having every skill imaginable ready to bear expertly at the drop of a hat. No specialization, because that's a dead end. Any specialty can and will be outsourced to someone more cheaply once that specialty knowledge is imitated. (specialties like managment, financial advisors, tort lawyers, military special ops)
Of course, in a bell curve world, not everyone is capable of being a renaissance man, so some of you are going to have to die, for the good of the economy. You die so that I may retire at 35 a very rich man. Think of the better world that your sacrifice represents. A middle class in class concious India and for the U.S. a small, elite band of UberMannen, furiously running from new "next thing" to "newer" like a pack of dogs (though very high acheiving and pedegreed canines) around the latest fifi on the block for a quick clusterf**k and then move on.
We'll have to take away your franchise before we can implement our brave new world, of course, but by then, you'll be greatful for the security and leadership we provide.
And then Ve shall rule ze Verld! (or what little part of it India and China allow us.)
One of the serious adverse affects of the industrial revolution (in all parts of the world, not just the U.S.) is that for the first time in history we had an enormous class of "free" people who relied entirely on employment by others for their livelihoods. As a result, we now have a country in which people who don't know even the most rudimentary principles of economics are casting votes for public officials based primarily on the state of the nation's economy.
As someone else posted on a similar thread, this is no different than asking the electorate to vote on the best method for treating pancreatic cancer.