The kind of jobs performed by people has changed a substantially in the last hundred years. Most manufacturing jobs now are done by robots, or are done using tools that weren't available a couple of decades ago.
Many people have shifted to jobs either service industry, or an administrative position. For many, there is a lot more knowledge about the tools, or systems, needed to be effective in the job they do. They need to be able to use software, or a tool, on which there is a certain level of training needed to be able to even use it.
As time goes on, even a bigger share of the manufacturing jobs will be done by machines, with only a few minority be left to specialized workers. Most people will need to move other jobs, and receive the training to be able to do those jobs. That is why education needs to change faster, since the current system is educating people for jobs that most likely won't exist in the next couple of decades.
This will have a huge impact in all aspects of society, making it vital to make sure we can actually give society as a whole what it needs to make the shift to the new ways all this changes will make.
Society as it stands today, isn't fully ready to cope with the changes technology is doing to the way we work. Many people don't have the skills needed to shift to new jobs, and no way to access the training to get them. This puts them in a disadvantage, since they won't be able to get a new job to replace the income they lost, or get access to better paying jobs.
As a society we need to put in place the structure were access to education and training is accessible for all. If not, we face a future where a large amount of people won't be able to have access to a job because they don't have access to the education or training. Even today, there are people who can't get a better job simply because they can't access the training, or curses, needed to get them.
In a way, that future is now if we don't want to be overrun by it.
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