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While I agree with you that we need high resilience to survive in an era where change is this fluid, I have different concerns. As I have family and friends who have young children like 5, I agree that the concerns here can be lessened, for] those children need what they always have: , to feel secure and loved and to gifted a deep thirst for learning.

Yet, it is not those children that concern me, but those on the cusp of adulthood, for those young adults do need direction. I deal with clients who are finished first year of a degree that is no longer valuable, and, while some can pivot, others are deeply distressed. Programmers already graduated are not getting work, as so much as changed. And those in higher levels of employment are taken on more work through AI doing some of theirs. Less employees due to AI agents does not mean less work for them; it means less new hires..

Have you listened to him speaking about that age group? I remember being that age and the youthful optimism one tends to have. That is conspicuously absent in young adults as they watch those employed in the very careers they'd hope to purse already anxious about potential job loss due to AI.

I am struggling with answers to give them. While change has always been a constant in life, it has not had this degree of acceleration nor this degree of uncertainty, especially for the younger people ,and that rate of change is projected to remain so for years to come.

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