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In reply to the discussion: 1 in 2 new graduates are jobless or underemployed [View all]4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)Some trends remain pretty constant.
And I never advocated for banning all other kinds of education, merely encouraging people to enter fields that we find more useful than fields that are less useful. Don't worry, we'll always have liberal arts degrees and graduates.
Taking this reasoning to an extreme would mean we shouldn't involve ourselves in job training (who knows if we'll need electricians in the future?) or really any kind of education (will kids in the future really need english? What if we all have switched over to esperanto by then).
No, you can't predict exactly how many of any given kind of graduates we will need in the distant future. However you can with some reasonable accuracy approximate about how many we will need in the near future.