&gt; The reality is that as time goes on, the world&#x27;s needs can and will be met by fewer and fewer people.<p>This is true, but I don&#x27;t think it accounts for most of the youth unemployment we have seen so far. The jobs did not go to robots in America, they went to workers in China.<p>To answer another common theme: we can complain about CEO pay, tax cuts, stagnant wages, etc., but the reason for the pure and simple lack of jobs is not any of those things, it&#x27;s just that those jobs went elsewhere.<p>And of course that affects you even if you were not going to work in a factory, because now the guy who was going to do that is trying to get through college and get a white collar job, so he&#x27;s competing with you.<p>In turn, that means that going to college is now the baseline. So, after getting more people to get into more debt to get more degrees, maybe you find that you still can&#x27;t get a job.