Even so, we have to take a serious assessment of how we are going to utilize the workforce we have. The current super-specific education for every single job system doesn't work. We need a more versatile education and training system that allows the common man or woman to qualify for more than just a few narrow career paths. Employers need to start training their own employees again.
The elites decided that everyone had to be like them, hyper educated and live to work.
That is not everyone's idea of a life. Some want to work to live, they don't need to be kings or live in a million dollar mansion
So the elites shipped all the jobs off shore that did not fit their twisted view of what life is and belittled our military and veterans and those that did not agree with their lifestyle.
It can be rebuilt, but it will take time.