People in real life doubt me on this when I tell them too but I'm in an industry where I know what I'm talking about and I see it myself, in 20 years we won't be able to produce anything. I mean a complete halt, not a qualified man to turn the wrench. They will end up paying incompetent staff triple what the competent staff used to make just so they're someone to turn the wrench.
Gets annoying to explain to office tards and people who just don't understand how bad it is
I am an office tard, but I work IT in logistics (freight, road, air and sea) so I have some insight into this specific industry, we can replace people like me remotely from anywhere (still a lot of issues with that) but you can not pay some Indian 10 dollars a month to physically manafacture something.
The brain drain is a real looming crisis. It’s already here.
We used to make things and now we just abuse algorithms to sell gambling to children.
My friend designs engines and his father did something similar, and the stories they tell me when I see them are harrowing. I can’t remember what the dad did but it was so specialised he would go long stretches of doing nothing because when he was needed it was so important that it was worth paying him to fuck around. You can call him lazy, but he earned this knowledge and sold it.
It’s seeping into everything, go and ask any 25 year old at random if they can change a flat, or rewire a switch, or replace spark/glow plugs or whatever the fuck. They can’t, and worse than that they look down on you if you can and don’t just pay someone else to do it.