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Bent Measuring Stick — Monday’s Straight Measure
The future still needs people who know how to fix real things.
Meta recently announced a $115 million investment in America’s Workforce Academy, a no-cost training program tied to skilled-trades jobs for its data-center buildout. Reuters reported that graduates are expected to receive job offers with contractors involved in Meta’s expansion. Google also announced a $50 million commitment to help train more than 300,000 American workers for skilled-trade careers.
That should catch the attention of any young person who has spent years hearing that the future belongs almost entirely to screens.
For a long time, the economy has talked about progress in digital language: apps, platforms, algorithms, automation, cloud computing, artificial intelligence. But every digital promise still has a physical body. It needs land, power, cooling, fiber, concrete, transformers, substations, steel, maintenance, and people who know how to make real things work.
That does not make AI less important. It makes useful human competence more visible.
A young person learning a trade is not choosing the past over the future. An electrician, lineworker, welder, technician, pipefitter, fiber installer, or maintenance worker is not standing outside the modern economy. They are working at the point where the abstract world runs into the real one.
The straight measure is simple and encouraging: when the economy gets too enchanted with abstraction, the people who can build and maintain the physical world become more important, not less.
#SkilledTrades #AI #StraightMeasure
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