Silicon Valley threatens the majority of blue collar workers last. This is Moravec's Paradox. The kinds of jobs blue collar labour does flexibly and in situ are extremely difficult for robots and AI to accomplish. The jobs that are rote and can be performed in a centralized production have already been automated or outsourced to China!

That is why blue collar workers are more worried about migration and globalization than computing technology. The 'robots' that threaten their jobs are other people.

It is the white collar jobs Silicon Valley is destroying. Journalists, Accountants, Lawyers and many more to come.

Solution definitely isn't education, or at least not education as it is classically understood.

Korea and Japan have already tried the education route and they have met diminishing returns. Go there if you want insane working hours for low pay and pointless competitions.

Here's a crazy idea.

Maybe young people should leave the universities and exit the cities altogether. They could live in small communities in the countryside and be ramen profitable. Integrating into the broader economy could be accomplished by traveling to like-minded communities to avail of services there e.g. an artist's colony, a computer person colony, etc

I think this is happening already but it's flying under the radar of journalists as some kind of Timothy Leary move.