The Fifth Industrial Revolution is upon us. While technology and AI are ever expanding and exploding, the labor market is left in the dust. Many jobs are becoming extinct, just as in every revolution, but the shift to expand the necessary skills needed to meet today’s market is being met with resistance. “ALL Americans must be employed before we cave to one immigrant” is the rallying cry. But ALL Americans no longer have the necessary skills. The Education system was too engrossed in making peasants to see past their World Order dysfunction.
By 2026, the shortage of ‘available talent’ is expected to reach over 1.2 million. Technology is only a part of the equation. Constantly upgrading the talent with the advancements has fallen flat. A person trained in a particular field five years ago is already obsolete. They can either retrain or find themselves ‘laid-off’.
Within this weave, there is burnout. Burnout occurs when management can’t replace talent and are forced to rely more and more on a smaller pool of overworked talent. The cycle expands as the business loses its reputation among recruits and a digression develops.
The Americans demanding full employment by Americans don’t appear to understand the concept of obsoletion that is normal within every Industrial Revolution. It is like requiring phone operators to be employed when there are no more landlines. The shortage of pilots when planes were first developed. Mechanics for the first line of automobiles.
Where is the Job Market today? What jobs are in demand and which jobs are or will soon become obsolete?
The degrees in highest demand are not always the ‘most popular’. Too often those unpopular degrees are the ones that prove the biggest waste of time and money: Liberal Arts – starting salary $36,000. General Psychology – starting salary $34,000. Communications. English. Wherein Demand means ‘shortage’ translates to higher salary: mathematics & Statistics, Nursing, Physician Assistant, IT, Computer Science, Engineering etc…
Jobs that will soon be obsolete include: Bank teller, Cashier, Data Entry, Retail workers, actors, writers – anything that can be replaced by faster and less costly AI. Like it or not – this is the future. It is advancement. When my grandmother was born cars were the latest invention, no planes, no bare legs, and women had a 23” sucked in girdle waist. Chinese made up 90% of the railroad workforce. Today, blacks make up 50%-60% of sports. Should be fire all black athletes and replace them with whites?
Musk has warned America about the declining birth rate – to a crowd of naysayers. But here are the statistics: In 2016, the birth to death ratio for whites in America was less than 1. The fertility rate between 2021 and 2023 had dropped to 52.9 per 1,000 white women compared to Asian/Pacific Islanders – 446.3 per 1,000.
IF you want America to be White Again – you have to have babies. It is that simple. IF you want all Americans to have jobs, you have to be ‘marketable’. Basic economics.
There are two fundamental guides that either ground us or see us fail; Critical Thinking and Emotional Thinking. Both are necessary components in every aspect of our lives, however, the weight of each should correspond to the value attainment. For example; a business survival guide would likely lean 75% Critical to 25% Emotional. Art would likely be the reverse. DEI turned businesses upside down given it is based 100% on Emotional values. DEI caused bankruptcies, increased incompetence, and worse – required blacks at 14% of the population to be the new hires consuming some 97% of ALL new hires. Whites were fired to meet the DEI Requirements. A business that didn’t – would be put out of business.
DEI also consumed salaries as an entire department had to be created. It dragged businesses into the rabbit hole of inferior quality. It also caused CEO’s to quit at a greater rate than ever before given they didn’t want to be associated with a failing company. Unlike captains they had no intention of going down with the proverbial ship.
And Lastly, for qualification: There are 7 separate types of VISA’s available for immigrants: EB-5, Temporary Visa’s, B-1, B-2, Green Cards, Immigrant visa’s and H-1B. The H-1B which is causing all the controversy is available only for ‘skilled workers’ with a bachelors or masters degree and capped at 85,000. LPR Immigrant Visa’s are permanent and can allow up to 675,000 per year. It is the LPR’s that are exploited given they can get public assistance, welfare and in-state tuition.
Unfortunately, the people most aggressively arguing don’t know this facet of immigrant VISA’s. Our problems in the US are today. To fix our problems, solutions require examination. Unlike government which likes to create ‘committees’ to evaluate everything for years, the private sector, aka Musk and Ramaswamy, are the finger snappers – they see through the eyes of Critical Thinkers. We don’t have years. Yellen is claiming we will go into default on debt January 20th. That hits our credit rating which hits the value of the dollar and trade. Don’t be like government …
Helena, your article is far off. That is unusual. There are so many things to cite, I do not know where to start.
First off, the H1B program is incredibly abused. Those are not specially skilled people. I saw it too close up for 30 years to not know about it. People badly unqualified are hired, who do not know basic system commands, and are illiterate. It’s rampant, while we Americans are being pushed out of the job market. I and others with multiple areas of study, such as chemical engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, cannot get interviews. i could run a team of engineers, and I cannot get an interview, because I am treated lower than a fledging semi-literate person with no drivers license but some rudimentary information systems training.
If you are trying to tell me that I and my associates are not good enough to be part of a solution in US technology, you will see nothing of me anymore on your site. You are not in a position to judge technology. I am.
Secondly, the H1B program was supposed to place people only who have the same skills as Americans, to receive the same pay. That is not done in practice. The job ads are written to be impossible to fill, then, when all Americans are rejected, a corporation requests an H1B, and waives the requirements. That is a bait and switch. They write ads in which there may be no one in the world to satisfy, then they hire an illiterate IS Indian grad.
The situation with India is lots like Mexico. We have illegals repairing roofs and painting houses. We have Indians writing code. They all send money home, leaving the US economy.
Thirdly, which you keep failing to mention, Musk and Vivek’s remarks were improper, vulgar, anti-US and childish. To speak out as they did, on an issue unrelated to their assigned area, is unacceptable. This is an issue of basic professional conduct. It is as if the secretary of interior started writing vulgar attacks on issues of the department of commerce. It makes no sense. People who behave like that are not to be treated as special. So far, we have gotten ZERO ideas from them on how to reduce government. Their proposal to increase immigration increases the cost of government, for unemployment, social security, and so on.
From the viewpoint of an experienced technical person who has designed systems, and evaluated them from top to bottom, I judge the behavior of these 2 to be poor, not performing the intended function, indicative of design problems.
We do not need them to tell us our education is broken. That problem is largely due to government, and, lo and behold, that is an area they can focus us on, but they chose not to. That is, the huge cost of the system, including teachers. How about they recommend importing teachers? That would cause an uprising in our corrupt political system. But wait, aren’t the teachers part of the problem? No, to these 2, people like I with chemical engineering and computer engineering education are the problem.
Lastly, Musk already backtracked lots, by wanting H1Bs to be paid the same. And, he attacked the program in the past as needing reform. That would open up the job market for Americans. It shows that his ideas are not well formed since he has big contradictions. That guy is not so smart to speak and behave as he has. Trump has criticized the program a lot. Musk went out of control, if he cannot act like an adult, he will be fired. Trump does not take kindly to people not performing their assgned duties.
Musk made a fool of himself, get off his bandwagon.
I am 77 years old. I was educated in the 50’s and 60s to an Engineering degree in 1970 (Iowa State University). Go get a list of my classes required from kindergarten to Engineering degree. Go get the textbooks required. Find or train teachers to teach this stuff. Current pathetic education situation solved in the next 20 years. You can’t do it over night.
WE are in desperate NEED of Brilliance!
Happy New Year Helena
Roberto (@callmefree1)
HI!!! Happy New Year to you too! Having a glass or two of Cham ‘pagnee’!
The West’s financial influence is in decline. Our government has added $6 trillion to the national debt in the past two years alone. We are creating over $1 trillion in new debt every 3-4 months and our debt to GDP ratio is 124%. This is unsustainable, stated Alt Market author Brandon Smith.
Before the US can build up, it must go through the black hole. We must fall down to get up!
I am thinking quite a bit about the immigration issue, too. I need to look at all sides.
Vivek and Musk
https://scheerpost.com/2024/12/31/billionaire-vivek-ramaswamy-is-a-wall-street-speculator-accused-of-pump-and-dump-schemes-not-a-scientist/
We have been dummied down since 1967. But somehow Musk and Ramaswamy are going to make it worse? Think clearly. They say this because these men can not be bought and not blackmailed.
Hoping for the best.
May your new year begin with God’s blessings. I pray that the upcoming year be nice and beautiful for you and your family.