Sharing life skills is indeed God’s work
Job security is gone. Globalisation and automation make it more and more difficult to maintain first-world jobs that might offer a decent wage. Competition for work is relentless. Short contracts, zero-hour contracts, gig jobs, and exploitative conditions are forced on staff and will inevitably rejuvenate trade unions.
To compete in this environment, workers need an impressive skill set, but, most of all, they need proficiency in literacy, numeracy, and digital skills. According to the OECD, too many people “of working age lack the basic skills in literacy and numeracy to participate in both work and society”. Without those skills, most workers are as obsolete as ostlers.
