From a labor economics standpoint, I believe in hiring based on capability—not identity politics, not empty quotas. Just results. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), rolled out during the Trump administration, was a flawed but genuine attempt to clean house and reset hiring practices. It chipped away at bureaucratic excess, but even DOGE wasn’t built to handle what’s barreling down the pipeline: a full-blown technological reckoning.
We are not heading toward change—we’re already knee-deep in it. Automation, AI, robotics, machine learning, and every other buzzword tech bros throw around are no longer projections; they’re real, tangible forces steamrolling the job market. Especially for young workers and those without elite credentials. Entry-level jobs—the very foundation of upward mobility—are evaporating. We’re watching recent grads with real technical skill sets scrambling for scraps, pivoting into fields they never planned for just to make rent. That’s not strategic flexibility. That’s forced adaptation under duress. It's survival mode, and it signals a system that isn't evolving—it's failing.
Worse still, we're pretending this is a temporary glitch, a hiccup that will fix itself. But you don't fix a structural collapse by throwing around band-aids. You rebuild the damn structure. If we keep pretending this is business as usual, we’re going to find ourselves with an entire generation locked out of the economy.
Dependency Dressed Up as Innovation
Here’s the real kicker: when enough people can’t work, the state has to step in. Not because it's noble, but because chaos is bad for business. Enter UBI, housing credits, food stipends, free clinics—aka government pacifiers. This stuff starts as support and ends as systemic dependence. What we’re really building is a slick, 21st-century communism. It's not wrapped in red flags and slogans anymore. Now it has sleek UX and a startup aesthetic.
And let's be honest, it looks appealing. Safety nets dressed up as freedom. Subsidized lifestyles branded as liberation. A monthly check for doing nothing sounds nice until you realize it comes at the cost of autonomy. You don't innovate from a couch. You don't build from dependency. If we’re not careful, we’ll trade our liberty for comfort—and we won’t even realize it until it’s too late.
Yes, new jobs will emerge. But they’ll be harder to get. The bar keeps rising while public education is sinking like a stone. We're not ready. Not even close. And that gap—between where society is and where the job market is going—is where most people will fall through.
Bureaucracy Is Bullshit (And Everyone Knows It)
Let’s not kid ourselves. The job market already feels rigged. Government roles at the local level? Half of them are smoke and mirrors. These roles exist to fulfill budget requirements or reward political loyalty, not because they actually do anything. Blue states, red states—doesn't matter. Both sides are bloating government payrolls for optics.
Meanwhile, automation doesn't take lunch breaks. It doesn’t call in sick. And it sure as hell doesn’t need performance reviews. If your job is rule-based, predictable, or repeatable, you're on borrowed time. AI isn't coming for the future. It's coming for the middle. The middle class, the middle manager, the middle of the org chart—all of it.
And let’s talk about corporate bullshit for a second. So many job titles are padded nonsense. "Engagement Specialist," "Innovation Evangelist," "Customer Happiness Guru"—what even are these? These roles exist to satisfy internal KPIs and stakeholder presentations, not to create actual value. And when cuts come, guess who goes first?
We're Getting Dumber While Tech Gets Smarter
Let me spell it out:
Tech = exponential growth
Education = flatlining
Workers = falling behind
Throwing iPads into classrooms doesn’t build cognitive muscle. You can’t ChatGPT your way into long-term relevance. The shit that actually matters—critical thinking, problem-solving, systems-level understanding—can't be spoon-fed by a chatbot. If we don’t fix this, we’re looking at a future where most people can’t meaningfully contribute to the economy. Not because they're lazy, but because they’ve been set up to fail.
Even worse? We’re teaching kids how to pass tests, not how to think. That’s educational malpractice. We need kids who can learn fast, adapt faster, and think across disciplines. Instead, we’re pushing out test-takers who are terrified of failure. Guess what? The real world is failure-heavy and feedback-driven. If you're not teaching that, you're not teaching shit.
And no, virtual reality isn’t the answer. Meta Quest is cool and all, but I’d still rather touch grass and see the damn sun. We can’t let escapism become the new norm. If we do, we’re just numbing the symptoms instead of solving the disease. Digital utopias are great until you unplug and realize you’re broke and disconnected in the real world.
Rebuild Education or Die Trying
Bootcamps? Band-aids. Career coaching? Temporary relief. What we need is a full reboot of the education system—top to bottom. Common Core had the right idea, but the rollout was a dumpster fire. You can't standardize tests without standardizing how people are taught. That’s like expecting every McDonald's to taste the same without giving them the same ingredients or training.
Here's a better blueprint:
Federal Education Media: Hire the best minds, give them Netflix-tier production budgets, and build modular online courses. Think MasterClass meets MIT.
AI in the Classroom: Not just to spit out answers, but to simulate, personalize, and deepen the learning process.
Classrooms = Labs: Turn in-person time into collab hubs, not boring lectures. Think project-based, real-world problems.
Track Everything: Use data to iterate, improve, and kill what doesn't work. Education should run like a lean startup.
Also, real talk: I learned more calculus from PatrickJMT on YouTube than from any of my actual teachers. That’s not an exception anymore—it’s the rule. Kids are learning more from creators than the classroom. We need to embrace that, not fight it. Get creators in the curriculum. Give kids the best content and the best teachers—even if they live on the internet.
And let’s stop acting like every teacher is a saint. Some are legends. Some are just coasting. The system needs to account for that. Train them, support them, or give students better tools. If the best chemistry teacher in the country lives in Texas, why shouldn't kids in Detroit be able to learn from them too?
One Last Thing
Tech isn’t slowing down. It doesn’t care about our comfort zones. It’s moving at breakneck speed, and either we catch up or get steamrolled.
If we don’t transform how we learn and think, we’re not just in for a labor crisis—we’re in for a full-blown identity crisis. You lose critical thinking, you lose culture. You lose innovation, you lose power.
Without reform, we become passive consumers of entertainment and state-issued stipends. Not citizens. Not builders. Just... bodies in chairs.
And that’s not how we survive the next chapter. That’s how we fade out of relevance.
Me? I’m not signing up for that. I’m here to build. To teach. To pull others out of the algorithmic fog. To slap people awake and remind them this shit is real, and it’s coming fast.
Let’s not go quietly. Let’s go smart. Let’s go loud. And let’s fucking mean it.