actually, i think he's missed the boat on this. this was true in the 70s, nobody listened, and now we have a mess. moving forward, college degrees are the next thing to become useless, as industry after industry becomes integrated with advanced automation.

rather than bite and claw around ways to find new types of jobs, i think we need to come face-to-face with the so-called luddite fallacy and realize that the technology is getting to the post-marxist reality of superproduction, taking us off these so-called infinite growth curves. this is actually progress, in terms of maximizing individual human freedom. but it's going to require a paradigm shift in economics, which of course won't happen.

in the meantime, you're looking at an economy run by robots and endemic structural employment, driving political unrest that's going to lead to some hard choices. the teleology be damned, but i think the dude got it right.

nowadays, unless you have a passion for academia, you're really better off just trying to get in somewhere when you're 17 and focusing on climbing the ladder.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/cut-university-enrolment-by-30-expand-colleges-ceo-commissioned-report-urges-1.3014893