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I've no data to back this up, but I think a big difference is the rate of change, which does have a direct impact on peoples' ability to adapt.



Indeed. A farm labourer could become an assembly line worker or a docker or something quite quickly. Not to denigrate those guys and I'm sure there are some that have or could, but truck driver to Javascript developer or whatever, is a much bigger jump. And the skill of driving a truck doesn't change nearly as fast as the latest JS framework which has a half life of 6 months before its wiped out by the new thing.




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