“The world will look more like Downton Abbey, with people having all kinds of servants,” he explained, as if he were merely predicting rain. The jobs of the future that he talked about didn’t strike me as jobs that paid very much or came with any long-term job security. They didn’t seem to have the structure, benefits, or sense of community that Shannon craved. Nor did they seem to be evenly distributed across the country. But he was right, of course. It was already happening. The manufacturing economy had faded into the “service economy.” Four out of five American jobs in the private sector
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