[OfSanguineFire]

> what about a 50 year old woman who has been working for 30 years and still has 15 to go, but their job is completely gone? Do we send them back to college?

One solution is that which the Nordic countries provide: a dole that is sufficient to cover basic cost of living, and enough community-organized events and cultural and educational infrastructure that the now terminally unemployed can (or can at least choose to) spend their days doing something besides drinking and getting soft.