&gt; Teach someone to do something, now one person can do it.<p>Higher education is not necessarily the same as vocational education and has value beyond the teaching one to &quot;do something&quot;<p>I see why you say this answer is obsolete, but I would disagree. Increasing the education level of a population I think will increase its likelihood to come up with creative solutions to the &quot;no jobs&quot; problem: either by the development of new jobs for educated humans, or more likely, a new way to live in our jobless society.