Prepare for Post‑Managerial America

The piece urges young people to plan life trajectories on the assumption that America’s current professional‑managerial regime will fracture within a decade, and that success will depend less on joining the managerial elite and more on heirloom skills, local ties, and alternative institutions. It mixes personal advice (gendered roles, vocational choices) with a political forecast that reshapes what counts as prudent career and family planning. — If adopted by a segment of young people, this forecast‑plus‑advice could shift recruitment patterns, political identities, and give coherence to anti‑elite subcultures that influence elections and local politics.