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You've heard the term creative destruction I'm sure. As old jobs are lost to new technology, many more new ones are created by the free market. No central gov. can plan effectively what millions of people in a free market economy can create.

It's like telephone operators. Back in the early seventies there were many thousands. Virtually all of them lost their jobs due to the new phone technology. They weren't needed. A socialist government/society would have kept them on. A free market says those workers had to learn new skills.

I don't know what happened to those unfortunate telephone workers, but what happened to them has happened to millions of other workers since the IR. Their jobs became obsolete.

But new technology created new jobs, and workers had to adapt. That is what is needed now. And institutions of learning should be focused on helping train students for the new jobs. Many of which haven't been invented yet. The protean worker is what we are looking for. Somebody able to adapt to new technology.