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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] 20 years from now our kids will probably be working from their homes for companies 500 miles away. The priority should be future-proofed skills, globally marketable skills. Somebody has to be able to write code for those machines, somebody has to design the circuitry, somebody still has to write the documentation.[/quote]

Wrong.  All of these jobs can be done from India (I'm not sure why you said 500 miles).  The future jobs are the ones that cannot be done from India (plumbing, electrical, paramedics, nurses, doctors, construction, food service, etc.).  Writing code for the machine does not have to be done locally, but FIXING the machine's hardware does.  Designing the circuitry does not have to be done locally, but FIXING the circuitry does.  India.  China.  They will do those jobs.[/quote]

In 20 years, India and China will be too expensive, too.

But yes, the future is in jobs that can't be outsourced to other countries with cheaper labor forces. Unfortunately most of those jobs are low-paying jobs -- home health aides, for example.[/quote]

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