[ranci]

thanks for your survivorship bias

[dwd]

We may find ourselves wondering where experienced people are going to come from in future when the jobs that previously gave them the ability to independently support themselves while studying disappear.

[megaman22]

It's a common problem. I know of a lot of situations where businesses are fucked when boomer millwrights and mechanics retire, because they never bothered to keep an apprentice around. So much institutional knowledge going out the door, with no replacement

[tjoff]

That's a US problem though, lots of countries provide free education.

[nsxwolf]

Is it really your understanding that fast food workers never or rarely go on to do anything else?