We're watching the toothpaste come out of the tube in real time.

We're watching the toothpaste come out of the tube in real time.

Older workers aren't adopting AI fast enough — and a chunk of them won't, ever.

Younger workers can't get the jobs that used to teach them the trade — the entry-level roles got automated first.

One group is exiting. The other can't enter.

That's not a skills gap you fix with a six-week bootcamp. That's a structural collapse of how an entire workforce gets built.

The tube is empty. The question is who's going to design what comes next, before the middle of the workforce notices it's standing alone.