To be more precise, do what AI and China cannot do “YET!” Spanning back just five years, I was certain that my son and daughter — both rapidly approaching college age — would be best served by anchoring themselves in traditional careers: the qualitative rigor of law or the quantitative precision of engineering, for example. The premise was simple: Mastery in these domains guaranteed a stable, enduring livelihood and good future for them. That foundational calculus has irrevocably shifted. We now operate in a vice-grip between artificial intelligence (AI) “pushing up” and China “pushing down.” What remains relevant to the rest of us and the global workforce is no longer a fixed target — it is evolving and being radically redefined on virtually a quarterly basis. Simultaneously, we are further witnessing a deep-rooted, structural shift. While macroeconomic flows have historically oscillated between cycles of consolidation and fragmentation, the market has entered a prolonged phase of corporate "bulkage" of aggressive in-housing and relentless rationalization. Across virt