Reskilling in the age of the algorithm is a mythed opportunity where single-bottom line mandates rule the land.  All jobs will be replaced via automation where organizations are continuously pressured to cut costs and increase exponential growth as their top KPIs.  But when society's metrics for success move Beyond GDP to include caregiving, the teachers and other professionals currently not counted will get the salaries and support they deserve while shifting the goals for learning in the AI era from productivity to purpose. 

1. Counting the Caregivers
Learning in the Age of Machines
@johnchavens

3. These views are my own.

4. March, 2025
Introduction
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5. March, 2025
Reskilling is a myth in a
single bottom-line world.
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6. Automation
Humans Keeping Their Jobs
DISTRACTION
ZONE
OBFUSCATION
ZONE

7. March, 2025
DISTRACTION ZONE
• Well intended and potentially helpful
(Varies by global region – B.S. in the U.S)
• Returns for select few could be quite high
• Message for most - “your menial job is unworthy.”
OBFUCSCATION ZONE
• “We’ll work in complement with machines.”
• “There will be more jobs because of AI.”
• “We’ll all have more time for leisure.”
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8. March, 2025
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9. March, 2025
”Teen suicides are increasing at an alarming pace,
outstripping all other age groups, a new report says”
The Washington Post (October 17, 2019)
• For many years, suicide among youths was relatively rare and its frequency
relatively stable. But from 2007 to 2017, the number of suicides among
people ages 10 to 24 suddenly increased 56 percent — from 6.8 deaths per
100,000 people to 10.6, the new report shows.
• Suicide has become the second-most common cause of death among
teenagers and young adults, overtaking homicides and outpaced only by
accidents.

10. March, 2025
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”Teen suicides are increasing at an alarming pace,
outstripping all other age groups, a new report says”
The Washington Post (October 17, 2019)
“If you had kids suddenly dying at these rates from a new disease or infection, there would
be a huge outcry. But most people don’t even know this is happening. It’s not recognized for
the public health crisis it has become.”

11. March, 2025
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“We will never forgive you.”

12. HOW CAN WE DEFINE
SINGLE BOTTOM LINE
MENTALITY AS
“PROGRESS” OR
“INNOVATION” IF OUR
KIDS AND CLIMATE ARE
DYING?

13. SINGLE BOTTOM LINE
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14. March, 2025
Solution: Count the Caregivers
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15. March, 2025
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16. Riane Eisler

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20. March, 2025
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21. WE MUST DEFINE TRIPLE
BOTTOM LINE
PRIORITIZATION AS
“INNOVATION” IN THE
ALGORITHMIC AGE

22. March, 2025
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23. Thank You.

24. March, 2025
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