TL;DR the crisis of the boomers aging out of the workforce and taking their expertise with them is incorrigible
Boomers will complain about their industries dying and nobody being there to replace them while also providing zero educational pathway for youths to take the reigns once they retire. I've been looking at an industry with a shortage of human capital due to the main employee base retiring out and found that unless you're willing to travel hundreds of miles to one of the less than half-dozen technical schools still teaching the practice and spend thousands on overpriced government equipment consisting of an SBC and a screen, you'll have to be an autodictact and build the equipment yourself, filtering out 95% of potential apprentices. If I wasn't of a computer-orientated background born too late to ride the tech boom and looking for other industries to enter, I wouldn't have been able to "get in."
Regardless, the time for boomers to apprentice younger generations has passed. ~40% of boomers are now dead or on death's doorstep and the rest are in their 70s and 80s. The boomers are too old and do not have the time to apprentice the number of youths required to fulfill their positions and train them to a level of experience so that a drop in competency isn't noticed when these youths do take the reigns.
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