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Speaker 2: That are not even looking for work or not in

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Speaker 1: So talk about a scary fact.

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Speaker 2: And even for us as African Americans, a lot of

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Speaker 2: us have been pushed out of corporate and forced into entrepreneurship.

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Speaker 1: Purely by necessity, not by choice.

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Speaker 2: So there's a lot of conversation about how strong the

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Speaker 2: and I think it's definitely a sign of the times.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you. It was interesting.

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Speaker 4: I was watching CEO of Service Now McDermott talking about

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Speaker 4: said he thinks that thirty percent of college graduators won't

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Speaker 4: going to thirty. We watch Meta have layoffs early late

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Speaker 3: So you're seeing that cycle.

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Speaker 4: And the most important thing I could say is yes,

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Speaker 4: to how we need to execute and using it, becoming

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Speaker 4: educated by it. That's why I think Thursday's episode is

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Speaker 4: one of the most important things we've ever done, because

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Speaker 4: it gives you the foundational layers of how we need

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Speaker 4: don't get left behind. Yeah, but it's happening.

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Speaker 3: It's happening.

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Speaker 2: Reshot out to your point because you made me go

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Speaker 2: research this, like, what do we do? Because honestly, if

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Speaker 2: kids are not able to get job placement after the solution, okay,

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Speaker 2: one alternative is to invest, But if you don't have

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Speaker 2: proversion of claude or open AI. Is Are there any

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately not.

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Speaker 5: I mean, once again, going back to the episode that

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Speaker 5: can't beat them, join them. I don't necessarily think that

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Speaker 5: Really questions if education has the same value, especially from

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Speaker 5: If the education does not guarantee or that is not

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Speaker 4: That's part of the conversation that the pathway will definitely

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Speaker 3: That are going to be needed. I don't know if

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but the whole logic behind that doesn't make any

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Speaker 5: Like we always needed plumbers, and we have plumbers. We

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Speaker 5: and then there's going to be ten plumbers. Well, then yeah,

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Speaker 5: Because artificial intelligence is not threatening plumbers right now, So

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Speaker 2: The thought is if AI takes over, there'll be a

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Speaker 4: now malpractice is out. It changes things. And so they're saying,

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Speaker 4: And they're thinking, like the skills technicians, electricians, things like that, Yes,

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Speaker 5: And it's service, but it's not even sustainable, Like as

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Speaker 2: It's it's lip service because if I destroy an industry

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Speaker 4: that becomes a huge problem. So education reform, I mean,

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Speaker 3: Within the next ten years, we're going to see a

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Speaker 4: And how people look, how they treat, how they feel

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Speaker 2: Not even viable because the reward scenario or ratio isn't

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Speaker 3: Why would I go?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 2: that's crazy, Like to pay four hundred for undergrad three

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Speaker 2: there definitely needs to be a restructuring. But the sad

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Speaker 2: part is that you can't write.

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Speaker 1: Off those loans on five on them. That's the part

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