The whole world could live in Texas. It's a failure of the people in leadership positions and who control the resources to create a game where everyone can find a fulfilling role to play. Instead its rent seeking and actively blocking the game from changing because that would risk their wealth.

No, it's just that desperately needed, useful work goes undone(and the people who would have otherwise done it go unemployed) because the market doesn't incentivize it.

Over-accreditation might be the issue instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credentialism_and_educational_...

Hard to tell how you would easily stop the trend of educational inflation though, degrees are an easy way to sort through applicants.

No, but we did move all the entry-level work overseas as a response to the successes of the civil rights movement. See also: Detroit, Camden, Gary, etc.

If you are asking this question because you think we are, what steps are you willing to take to ensure you don't have kids?

The USA has sub-replacement fertility, as do almost all Western countries.

Population growth is entirely due to immigration.

We should open our borders to other very-high-HDI countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Dev...

(With diversity and equality requirements, eg. max 10% from any one country, max 49% males from any one country)

And disallow immigration from all others.