[quote=no_such_reality][quote=The-Shoveler]
Really do you just think it would be like Mad Max or something?[/quote]
No, I think it’s going to look a lot more like Caracas now or Rio of 20 years ago.
As for STEM degrees, well, that’s going to be our biggest failing. First we don’t train enough, second, we’re shipping all the junior roles out.
It’s really hard to get to be one of the thinkers that knows how things work, if you haven’t really had a good chance at learning the ropes. Those ropes learning jobs even in STEM are getting rarer.
China is building their Hoover dams, their NASA programs, their Interstates. We’re spending billions trying to protect people that don’t give a rats as about us from a bunch of thugs and doling out pork.[/quote]