[Chainmail]

Anybody watching the pattern? Good-paying manufacturing and production jobs are evaporating - thanks to union wage inflation, overseas workshops, and robotics. So what will Americans of average or below-average intelligence (remember that for every person with an IQ above 100, there's another one below 100) do for a living in the future?

The answer appears to be "work as a servant doing unpleasant stuff for somebody else". Higher education is dandy if you have the smarts to do something with it and have an area of study that is actually needed today. We are evolving to a society where the less-blessed are either relegated to emptying bedpans or just receiving a government check to keep them from rioting. And the unspoken truth is that illegal immigrants can do all those menial jobs for much less already.

Since a larger percentage of our young people born today have also greater chances of being on the autism spectrum for no explicable reason, what exactly does our future appear to be? Is anybody doing anything about this?

[Blackirish]

A degree in geology from a good school in oil producing state has an average starting salary of 90k. I looked into it because I was thinking of going back to Tulane.

[wbill]

Higher education is dandy if you have the smarts to do something with it

Dirty little secret is that smarts don't really matter in Higher Ed anymore. Lots of places are dumbing down their requirements.

You reap what is sown.