sj_zero on Nostr: I've been thinking a lot lately about how there is a skills deficit among younger ...

I've been thinking a lot lately about how there is a skills deficit among younger people. At least in my corner of the world, companies aren't bringing young people into their industries, they are hanging on to baby boomers who are incredibly highly skilled but they've been trying to retire for decades now, and some of them are just dying of old age.

I think that this is going to be the big thing that we need to make sure our sons are focused on. A lot of people think that you can just sit in a drum circle and sing kumbaya and somehow society is going to continue working, but at some point someone needs to be able to do something -- somebody needs to be able to fix the machine, somebody needs to be able to build the machine because otherwise the machine is going to break down and you can have all the drama circles you want and all you're going to get from it is a stone age civilization.