One critical goal must therefore be to lift the rewards of technical and service jobs in the West. In different areas, Germany, Scandinavia and other parts of Europe are good at this. By giving people genuine vocational skills, they raise the quality of what they do. The English-speaking world has forgotten how to do this. Instead of valuing high-quality service, society demands it at the lowest price. Another goal is to educate people to cope with a world in which machines are taking most of the old jobs. This means reviving a focus on the humanities, including basic levels of political
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