> your supermarket potatoes now cost $50 due to high labor costs
which is as meaningful as $1 potatoes since we don't know the value of a dollar in this hypothetical "everyone is a white collar worker" world. More likely the value applied to all jobs shift, and previously lucrative jobs are not so lucrative anymore; that said, this may not be zero sum, the average standard of living may also increase - but many humans derive their satisfaction relative to the average, a metric that can never satisfy everyone, a poor man in the west today may have better nutrition, health, welfare and SoL than a kind hundreds of years ago.
> people with white collar skills cannot find white collar jobs
This is what I asked - why do you think this is? I'm not convinced.
> there are people w/ master degrees doing Uber
master degrees, in what? If if need to be said: get an education in something useful, and paid well by the market. STEM is usually a good bet.
> they can read and write and do math
But how do those skill translate into something useful for someone else? And how does demand compare to supply?