answer:That fear has been around for centuries. Look at how educational requirements have increased over time, and you’ll see that the real problem is that education is treated as a luxury here, which will cause the US to implode while other nations that are less into tax cuts and for-profit education systems will leave us behind. The goal of technology is a post-scarcity economy, though those who profit from scarcity will seek to impede technology as much as they can. The world will lose one major superpower, with all the ripple effects that implies/entails.