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"I have done quite a bit of reading on this the past few months. No matter how many folks blow sunshine at you about the job market, here are the facts that I have discovered. The job market will never be the same again."

Interesting article in the news this morning. About how hard it is to find a job. It is hard for people who have college degrees. It is even harder for those who do not. This might be the start of when the job market starts to curve inward. Wait - don't we keep hearing about all the jobs that President Trump is going to bring back into the country? And he will. But - some of those factory jobs which are coming back might already be filled by machines instead of a human.

One might ask this question - the economy is good, wages are up, why is it so ding dang hard to find a good job these days? One word - uncertainty. If you are employed and bringing home a livable paycheck, count your blessings. If you are on the outside looking in - good luck. It is time to get creative. And not to sound like a Debby Downer, but next year it will be even harder. 

I have done quite a bit of reading on this the past few months. No matter how many folks blow sunshine at you about the job market, here are the facts that I have discovered. The job market will never be the same again. If you have an unskilled job, those jobs will leave first. The some of the white-collar jobs. Why will so many companies want to replace humans with AI driven machines? Cost and dependency. No sick days, no late days, no lunch breaks, no performance issues, and so forth. The do more with less crowd will be dancing in the streets.

Some futurists think we will be coming into an age of guaranteed income. Translation - getting money from the government with no work involved. Just enough money to live on. During the last election season, Andrew Yang proposed everybody getting a Universal Basic Income (UBI). Yang was suggesting $1,000/month - not enough to live on, but enough to help. Net result? Yang got laughed off the stage for this idea. But wait - maybe Yang was just a bit early. Maybe this is the path with many will walk on in the very near future. 

As the job market continues to curve inward, life with those on the outside will continue to be a struggle. It will not just happen in the USA - it will be happening all over the world. By 2040, we will be living in a world without work for the majority of people. Many jobs that the few people who will be working will have, don't even exist right now. Is it going to be strange to enter these unchartered waters? Oh yes, very strange and very scary.