The return of the trades. Electricians, plumbers, welders, and HVAC technicians out-earn many graduates; reshoring, electrification, and data centres all need hands.
Scaling Compounding now. Evidence is visible in company results and data. Largest effect expected 2023–2035.
Second-order effects
Vocational schools fill while universities empty; apprenticeship wages rise; the status hierarchy of work shifts for the first time in fifty years.
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Frictions it intensifies
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Solutions it accelerates
Solutions it threatens
Sectors it reshapes
How to track it
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