This got too esoteric for me, but I guess I'd start out by saying that not "literally everyone" is being pushed to be retrained to deal with information technology (hate the term "IT" as it makes me imagine the overweight guy that runs the computer lab). If you look at scammy, three month-old occupational colleges right now, computer & information systems programs are going to end up right alongside healthcare and (of course) business administration.
That said, with regards to your disappointment expressed below...
I'm appalled that I have to spell this out, but what I meant was "if we as a people were making honest choices about what society, qua society, should orient itself around, would we really decide that computers and IT should be the only real growth industry, into which everybody else should be 'retrained'?"
Presuming that your premise vis-a-vis "retraining" is true, your usage of terms such as "qua" indicates that this discussion probably ought to land on the Philosophy & Religion Board, and that, this being an economics board, these "neoliberals" answered the question in such a fashion.
That said, obviously, if we consider the implications of
Eclipse of Reason, the contemporary "IT" fetish is going to lead straight to Nazism, so be warned.
