No one truly knows the way forward, just that where we are is a bad place. Someday, the framers of our time will have to figure something out. Hopefully they will hear us, and take the best ideas for that something.
Anyhow, I think we should outright create an artificial economic system. Our problems come from inherited wealth, stratified institutions, and rube-goldberg solutions to corruption and inequality.
I think that one replacement that would be gamechanging, would be to make getting an education into a paid job. The state and federal government pays students for their grades. If this income is sufficient, a student can focus solely on learning, instead of accruing debt and being distracted by part-time work. We get more people getting their learning completed, thus entering the job market with the ability needed.
Of course, we would have to address more issues. Such as ghost jobs, unreasonable hiring standards, decentivizing companies from replacing veteran workers with greenhorns for fiscal reasons, and so forth. We simultaneously have too many and too few job seekers, due to perverse incentives.
I think it isn't companies that should be involved with hiring, instead they should send a request for a worker to the government, who posts the position with standardized requirements and reviews whether prospective employees have the required credentials. The government also tracks whether or not a job position is going unfilled by the company, and starts penalizing the corporation if a posted position consistently needs filling, employees churning, and so forth. This might help with the ghost job issue, and address issues of unfairness.
