Entire occupations that were previously unattractive and declining, such as petroleum engineering in the 1980s and 1990s, have rather suddenly become attractive and high-paid—due to increased energy prices and new technologies for domestic extraction of oil and gas.
This means that trusting on evolution to weed out ‘unproductive factories’ will work only over many cycles of this—until companies learn to document the really important things.
From http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/03/the-myth-of-the-science-and-engineering-shortage/284359/ (which in genral isn’t that much related comes this quote:
This means that trusting on evolution to weed out ‘unproductive factories’ will work only over many cycles of this—until companies learn to document the really important things.