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If driverless trucks actually scale what happens to several million drivers When an industry migrates the whole supply chain leaves and the workers left behind are not unskilled but stranded A new automated sorting line cuts the warehouse night shift from twenty people to four Skills mismatch as a macro cause: what the education system produces has little to do with what employers list New drawings and a new parts supplier leave a fitter with ten years on the floor suddenly unqualified How well do retraining programmes work for a 45-year-old learning a new trade Four thousand coal miners cannot code and that gap is textbook structural unemployment Structural unemployment takes a generation to work through because whole careers have to be rebuilt The line between structural and frictional unemployment: whether the missing skill can be learned in a few weeks Regional mismatch: the jobs are in Shenzhen and the workers are in the northeast and moving costs more than the wage gap