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Re:I think US college education is nearer to collapsing than... by loosescrews on Sunday March 20, 2022 @08:32PM (#30748493)
I think the piece that you are missing is automation. A large portion of non-STEM jobs (including most farm jobs) can be automated and likely will be automated in the coming decades. If you are college age, you should be planning for a more automated future.
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Re:I think US college education is nearer to collapsing than... by randomdata on Monday March 21, 2022 @07:08AM (#30752596)
> A large portion of non-STEM jobs (including most farm jobs) can be automated

Most farm jobs are STEM. The non-STEM aspects of agriculture were mostly automated away centuries ago. You'll notice that farming went from ~90% of the workforce to ~2% over that time.

There exists some remaining small scale stuff that hasn't justified the cost of automation, but at the small scale it will be a long time before automation does pencil out. Robots don't work for free.

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