How can the existing blue-collar workforce best prepare for the transition to a more high-tech, automated job landscape?

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A2A, I really don’t have a good answer for this, historically, moves away from technologies that great numbers of people rely on for their livelihoods have never worked out well for the those people. The ones wise enough to see the writing on the wall, smart enough to retrain, and motivated enough to actually switch careers will come out ahead.

For everyone else, it’s a problem without a solution, a predicament. You are basically thrown to luck. Both sides of my family have members who lost their spouses and lives after they lost a job. It’s never pretty when this happens. But my family has its members who have done better for themselves and so they help out as best they can.

The nature of technology march is such that there are never as many jobs in the new world order as there were in the old. New career options open up eventually, but it’s for their kids, not the displaced workers.

The only thing that can really help here is political action. Band together with your fellows and beat down the doors of your local representatives and demand relief. If you can make yourselves and your cause politically sympathetic, you can come out of it changed, but not down and out.