"Learn a Trade!" response to AI fears

[patphil]

11. The belief that going to college is a bad idea is at the forefront of project 2025 policy.

Yes, AI and robotics will replace millions of jobs, and many of these will be jobs that college graduates now hold. But many more will be in semi-skilled and non-skilled areas.
This is why there is a push to deport millions of people. Room has to be made for people who are now in jobs that won't exist in 20 years. The nation has to be programed to have lower expectations as far as what the average person can achieve in the employment market.
Well educated college graduates aren't going to settle for less than what they expected their college degree would get them. And right now we have millions of college graduates with huge debts and jobs that pay a lot less than they expected to get. A college degree was oversold, and the correction toward lower expectations has been initiated.

We're beginning to see the federal government exhibit hostility toward colleges and universities that it expects will re-form higher education into something they control. Less people in college, and only the right kind of people.

So they're saying kids should learn a trade. Those are code words for lowering your expectations. We all know their aren't a lot of open jobs in that sector, so that idea isn't going to work, meaning the next generation of adults will have to shift down even lower to mill work, specialized jobs that require hands on, and manual labor such as farm work.
This is not going to be an easy transition; it will require a strong central government with the ability to force changes the people don't want. That's what is emerging in the republican party right now.

I don't think this will go over well.