Healthcare and college are "Baumol cost disease": because they depend on skilled workers, much of that is the same as "American salaries are higher than in the rest of the world", and unlike manufacturing or software (+) you can't outsource it to lower-wage countries.
(+) there still seems to be a massive wage premium for "being physically in a San Francisco office" even if most of the work is being done by an AI, which cannot be sustainable
(+) there still seems to be a massive wage premium for "being physically in a San Francisco office" even if most of the work is being done by an AI, which cannot be sustainable