I fear that as AI rampantly increases entropy and rapid change within our societies, we will see this pattern occurring again and again in shorter spaces of time. Universities and the way we see them today will likely be replaced with short term specialised courses that allow for a quicker turnaround of new skilled labour, ideally at multiple times during one's life. The onus should be on the government to do a better job ensuring the value of a university education keeps up with the times.

As someone with a vocational degree and who has also recently completed a coding boot camp, I do feel a bit cheated and nihilistic when faced with the spiralling cost of home ownership and cost of living. There is still plenty of money to be made but the ROI for education these days is laughable. I look forward to seeing what crazy ideas the government plans to cook up to placate a whole generation of people that will struggle to afford their own homes.

The sci-fi utopian dream of having robots do all the hard work while the humans do more fulfilling work was a convincing fantasy. We didn't think about the few humans that did manage to hold on to their positions and the potential malign intentions of those wanting to hold on to some form of control.