Imo, we should go back to education and take a more serious look about the social utility of what we are teaching, not on an individual but a systemic level and whether this really is the best way to allocate subjects. How much of this after all is about actual training or just social signalling?

We tried that before the service revolution took off. That's exactly why we started pushing people into college, thinking that education could build entrepreneurship/businessmenship. We told the kids that if they become those entrepreneurs/businessmen they'd earn more money, live a better life, etc. in hopes to compel them in that direction.

But that's not what the people wanted.

...this has been "figured out" -- it's brutal, and it looks like the gig economy.

I don't even have to paraphrase this: "Drive with Uber - Be Your Own Boss"