There is a growing skills gap in America. A growing percentage of people are either overskilled and underemployed, or underskilled and can’t find desirable work.
This is mainly due to society’s poor valuing of mastery. If governments, businesses and schools were more incentivized to understand and leverage this concept, our jobs and the people working them might be much more aligned.
This article seeks to examine this problem, provide an example for working through it, and offer ideas for solving it.