On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 13:35:54 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

40 years ago I made a living fixing devices that operated with vacuum
tubes. Not much call for it now other than the occasional guitar amp. :-)

The problem is we built a middle class on those kinds of jobs and the
new economy has not replaced them with anything comparable.
The good middle class job simply does not exist these days in the
numbers that we need to employ the number of people we have.
Government is not going to fix that. It needs to happen in the private
sector and that is not what the private sector does in a global
economy with global communication. Dilbert can be in Mumbai now and do
the same job he did in an office in California.