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Related to the materials link. One reason we can no longer have a largely uneducated population:
http://www.newsweek.com/plastic-strong-kevlar-and-environmentally-friendly-298481
When you need significant training in biology & chemistry to make plastic, the current HS diploma just won’t cut it.
Of course, the tricky part is educating everybody. There is also a populist argument in here somewhere about whether there will actually be a premium for this education (though at least arguably, maybe inarguably, it’s baked into the college degree premium that exists.
Alternatively, we could just improve HS or Voc-Tech education to provide the needed education.