In the 1950s, one could get high paying assembly line job with health insurance and retirement with a high school education. How would workers putting fenders on Fords, eight hours a day, have fared in the knowledge economy? Those at Ford, that haven't been replaced by robots, have lost purchasing power. If public education spending is not equalized and corporations stop rewarding shareholders instead of workers, we have decided that this is the future.
'we are at the vanguard' are words used at ivy league, national labs and other sell heavy places (less bang for your buck). This is youtube for crying out loud, we don't need the pitch.
